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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14869314

"I want to live forever in AI"

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[-] The_Terrible_Humbaba@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago

It wouldn't be you, it would just be another person with the same memories that you had up until the point the copy was made.

When you transfer a file, for example, all you are really doing is sending a message telling the other machine what bits the file is made up of, and then that other machines creates a file that is just like the original - a copy, while the original still remains in the first machine. Nothing is even actually transferred.

If we apply this logic to consciousness, then to "transfer" your brain to a machine you will have to make a copy, which exist simultaneously with the original you. At that point in time, there will be two different instances of "you"; and in fact, from that point forward, the two instances will begin to create different memories and experience different things, thereby becoming two different identities.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

And since we know nothing about what consciousness is, you base this on absolutely nothing.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 7 months ago

That's a weird response to the person who is explaining the post to you.

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