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0 pointsnullc11mo ago0 comments

> I dunno about you, but I don't care about a computer program that believes it's me living on after I die.

1% of your cells are replaced daily. Presumably you still believe you're you even though much of you is constantly being replaced. If it were an option would you really deny your future self an arbitrarily long happy life because you got hung up on Theseus's Paradox?

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dexwiz11mo ago

I don't remember the part of that scenario where a scan is taken of the ship and uploaded to a server.

I long ago accepted that my image of self is a sort of illusion. That things I consider other, like microbes in my gut, constitute a large portion of me. And I change over time. Even the memories I have are copies of copies.

But all that happens in a continuity. Being uploaded is a stark difference and a disconnect that I cannot philosophically reconcile.

pixl9711mo ago

You lose consciousness for a few hours every night. If you've ever been put out for surgery the effect is even stronger. If someone could copy you when you were out, are you sure you'd have any idea it occurred? Could you prove you're not the copy? What if we're in that uploaded world now, would you be able to tell?

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