What if the distinction we are all groping for is immortality at the cost of determinism? A machine can be powered down and dismantled. A new machine can be bui

What if the distinction we are all groping for is immortality at the cost of determinism? A machine can be powered down and dismantled. A new machine can be built and fed the exact same training data, or run the same model, and presumably it would behave the exact same way. Any entity whose behaviors are that regeneratable and that replicable is perhaps less "conscious" than entities which are not.