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In case you are not aware, the first episode of Existential Comics explores this very subject: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1 https://existentialcomics.c

• marton78 6y ago
  This was a good read, thanks!
• dbingham 6y ago
  Good read, but it still doesn't address the issue of what happens when there are two of you - the copy and the original from the same pattern. Does consciousness split at the moment the patterns diverge? Is it shared? The analogy to sleep really doesn't connect at all, at least not for me. Consciousness isn't fully interrupted by sleep. Your brain is still working and processing, even when you're not dreaming. Your physical self is continuous, it's not the same as it being disassembled and reassembled immediately out of different material. And sure, even if the substance of your is being changed over, it happens as a gradual refactoring, not an instance decomposition and recomposition miles from the original point. The electrical patterns that make up your brain are never interrupted - not by sleep nor the gradual replacement of your body. They would be by (star trek style) teleportation. They would be ended and a (presumably) identical pattern started up at a different location. Can you tell I've spent a lot of time thinking about this?