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This is a philosophical assumption, and one that should be open to challenge, despite how intuitively sensible it seems. For instance, I could equally well arg

This is a philosophical assumption, and one that should be open to challenge, despite how intuitively sensible it seems. For instance, I could equally well argue that when somebody undergoes deep general anesthesia and all measurable activity in their brain stops, that person is "dead". The person who awakens from anesthesia is a different conscious individual, who happens to share the memories and personality of the original. If it's not necessarily true that anesthesia is death, why should it be necessarily true that mind uploading is death?

chasd00 4y ago
> when somebody undergoes deep general anesthesia and all measurable activity in their brain stops that's news to me. Is that literally true ( in the literal sense of the word "literally")? If so, that's very interesting and something i never thought about before.
- teraflop 4y ago
  It definitely doesn't always happen, but my understanding is that when the anesthesia is extremely deep, the brain's electrical activity can be so low as to be undetectable ("isoelectric").
jobigoud 4y ago
> If it's not necessarily true that anesthesia is death, why should it be necessarily true that mind uploading is death? I think you guys are saying the same thing… Mind uploading is a duplication process, like a fork. The emulated mind has continuity with the original, with possibly some small gap, so yes it's exactly the same as for anesthesia, sleep, etc. they didn't "die" in the process. But now there are two different entities that have continuity with the original branch. Both can subjectively claim to "be" the person that initiated the procedure. What the grand parent is saying is that the variant that stayed in the flesh is not magically synchronized with the emulated one so they don't have any incentive to suddenly kill themselves just because there happen to be a fork moving on on a different substrate. There are now two people sharing the same memories up to the fork point, and diverging afterwards. Neither of them should be killed without their consent and neither of them should have any a priori will to kill themselves.
- Handytinge 4y ago
  The simple solution here is to make mandatory during the upload process for the flesh version to be anethetised during the transfer, and destroyed after verification of completion. https://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2021/11/the-teletransportation-paradox-gives-us-clues-about-the-self.html https://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2021/1...
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chasd00 4y ago

> when somebody undergoes deep general anesthesia and all measurable activity in their brain stops that's news to me. Is that literally true ( in the literal sense of the word "literally")? If so, that's very interesting and something i never thought about before.

teraflop 4y ago
It definitely doesn't always happen, but my understanding is that when the anesthesia is extremely deep, the brain's electrical activity can be so low as to be undetectable ("isoelectric").

jobigoud 4y ago

> If it's not necessarily true that anesthesia is death, why should it be necessarily true that mind uploading is death? I think you guys are saying the same thing… Mind uploading is a duplication process, like a fork. The emulated mind has continuity with the original, with possibly some small gap, so yes it's exactly the same as for anesthesia, sleep, etc. they didn't "die" in the process. But now there are two different entities that have continuity with the original branch. Both can subjectively claim to "be" the person that initiated the procedure. What the grand parent is saying is that the variant that stayed in the flesh is not magically synchronized with the emulated one so they don't have any incentive to suddenly kill themselves just because there happen to be a fork moving on on a different substrate. There are now two people sharing the same memories up to the fork point, and diverging afterwards. Neither of them should be killed without their consent and neither of them should have any a priori will to kill themselves.

Handytinge 4y ago
The simple solution here is to make mandatory during the upload process for the flesh version to be anethetised during the transfer, and destroyed after verification of completion. https://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2021/11/the-teletransportation-paradox-gives-us-clues-about-the-self.html https://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2021/1...

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