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I've been trying to argue that my "self" will think I've continued on living, I'll have my old memories, the happy and painful ones; I'll have the stuff I have

I've been trying to argue that my "self" will think I've continued on living, I'll have my old memories, the happy and painful ones; I'll have the stuff I have in my agenda for next week, I'll have my likes and dislikes, the only difference is that they're stored in a different physical place (brain or SSD?). In that sense, did I die? I'll feel as content as my old self about the things I feel content about, etc, etc... I think the soul is just like an instance of a software running on hardware, and if the software and hardware are identical, why should the copy of an instance not think "I'm instance 'LoganDark'"? Subjectively, true, your original died, but if there's an identical copy, won't this perspective of the subject just be transferred over to the copy, with all the identical historical past?

LoganDark 3y ago
The thing is that you're absolutely right and I never meant to dispute what you're saying. However just like the teleporter that deconstructs you and reconstructs you somewhere else, even though the person that comes out is entirely identical to the person that went in and will also feel as such (i.e. nothing went wrong from their perspective), the person that went in experienced death, and will never actually get to be the person that came out. Basically, you killed someone, then restored a snapshot of when they were still alive. The one you killed will never know of the snapshot or get to be that snapshot, while the snapshot will live on exactly as the original would have. I don't want to be that original who never gets to see the snapshot. Yes, the snapshot will inherit everything that makes me "me", and yes the snapshot will get to live life normally. But I die.