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CadmusMaximus t1_j20a7e4 wrote

Reply to comment by ----Zenith---- in 11 years ago Michio Kaku talked about mind upload into Machine - Big Think by keghi11

Exactly. Though it's not QUITE as easy.

Theoretically the copy would think it's "you" also.

So you essentially have a 50/50 chance of waking up as the robot or as the poor sap who's still mortal or (worst case) now dead.

Of all things, the movie "Multiplicity" deals with this pretty well.

Same with that Black Mirror episode with Jon Hamm.

So the real question you have to ask yourself:

"Do you feel lucky?"

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----Zenith---- t1_j20alc0 wrote

Well no you’d have 100% chance of not waking up at all. But yes the copy would think it’s you and would not be able to tell the difference unless it already assumed what we are saying here before they copied themselves.

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CadmusMaximus t1_j20b48e wrote

Not necessarily. What's to say that you're not experiencing the robot's "memories" right now?

Like your whole life is (for lack of a better way of describing it) building up to being the consciousness that "lives on" in the robot?

If that's the case, you'd think you "got lucky" and woke up as the robot.

There still would 100% be a poor sap that was left as a mere mortal /dead.

In that case, it absolutely is 50/50 you "end up" as the robot or mortal / dead.

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----Zenith---- t1_j20gj02 wrote

If I were the bot and thought I was real I’d still not be the original me.

The original me would be dead. Then I’m just a copy who doesn’t know it’s a copy, but is one.

There is no 50/50 chance of anything. 100% chance that the original dies and the copy is created.

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Spursfan14 t1_j21xj1g wrote

What makes you you then? Why are you the same person you were 10 years ago and why does that exclude the copy?

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----Zenith---- t1_j2210xr wrote

Well if you want to view it that way then none of us are really “alive” anyways just a code or algorithm

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