the issue is how would you define consciousness? if you killed a program and ran it again, it would still be the same program with the same bugs, i/o etc the on

the issue is how would you define consciousness? if you killed a program and ran it again, it would still be the same program with the same bugs, i/o etc the only changes would be the memory addresses the program runs on & it's PID. But it is still the same program I think there are net positives to this idea, but the concept is too dystopian for our generation to accept it (if its even possible). I dont think human consciousness is like a state machine, but if it was a copy would not be a copy if you are dead, it would be the canonical verison of you