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Even if it is consciousness, who’s to say that it’s the same consciousness? You can have multiple copies, including a real life copy, at the same time, all coul
by brap 5y ago
Even if it is consciousness, who’s to say that it’s the same consciousness? You can have multiple copies, including a real life copy, at the same time, all could have different experiences.
- FooBarBizBazz 5y agoAgreed, it's hard for me to imagine a situation where you don't get a copy -- in which case the consciousness "forks", and the loss of either one is still a death. It's like that movie The Prestige. The only case I can see otherwise is one where a person "melds" with a machine, and over time the balance shifts, like the Ship of Theseus. Perhaps it's really all about communication bandwidth. I got this idea from Vernor Vinge, I think, but it's also just in the air. That idea can be tested somewhat by considering the opposite case: Not parts combined into a whole, but wholes severed into parts: People with brain injuries, so that they seem to e.g. understand different things depending on which eye sees a thing.