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In many respects, I think you already break your stream of consciousness when you sleep or are knocked out. When a copy of your brain is made, that copy will ex
by compscistd 6y ago
In many respects, I think you already break your stream of consciousness when you sleep or are knocked out. When a copy of your brain is made, that copy will experience what all of us do after a good night’s rest in a train: waking up to an unfamiliar environment, subtly changed by random firing of your neurons when you were asleep. The “you before sleep” is effectively not the “you after sleep” because there was a break in the chain.
Thus, there’s no benefit to the “you that didn’t go on vacation”. There was a benefit to the “you that did go on vacation”.
- gruez 6y agoSo you acknowledge that in the event of a brain transfer, two versions of your consciousness will exist, and that the "original" one will be lost, but it's fine because neither would be able to tell (ie. the original will be "going to sleep", and the copy will be "waking up")?
- danbmil99 6y agoExactly. I would put forth that you can take it even further, and assume that every moment In time represents a recreation of your conscious experience of the past up until the present. Under that perspective, Consciousness is like the illusion of motion on a computer monitor. There's some sort of framerate, related to the minimum period of time in which you can perceive a conscious thought, and the sequence playing back at a high frequency creates the illusion of continuity.