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Originally Posted by bunny
I think it's nonsense, but I guess people who think consciousness is computation would regard it as just another evolution - much like the "you" of ten years ago has very little commonality with the present day "you".
Do you only think you're the same person as the one you remember from school? Or was that really "you"?
I could see in the future were you could have a biological clone and physically connect the two brains for one to absorb the others. You wouldn't actually be destroyed in that scenario.
I always thought about teleportation like in Star Trek. You're basically destroyed during that processed in process but reassembled. Would that be you?
But there's the concept that absolutely everything in existence is connected through quantum entanglement. So maybe you could be reassembled digitally and be none the wiser. IDK lol.
I do think that David's thought experiment is goofy.
For one, I think humans could/will become biologically immortal before we become a type one civilization and control the Earth in every way. That's if we don't kill ourselves first through climate change or nuclear war.
Humans making it from a type 0 to a type 1 is the hardest part and don't think we will ever make it. Fingers crossed!