Tato7069 t1_j871bz7 wrote on February 12, 2023 at 2:55 AM

Reply to comment by Artanthos in A Different Kind of Ark — How we can sequence and store our DNA to be encoded into a future simulation and why this may have already happened by I_HaveA_Theory

In any situation that's still not you... It's a copy of you. Your conscious brain in your current body will never have any awareness of the existence of this copy after you died. It's not a continuation of your consciousness

Artanthos t1_j87387z wrote on February 12, 2023 at 3:11 AM

It would be from the copies perspective.

And in the many-worlds scenario, it is 100% indisputably you. A near infinite number of you, each diverging from each other.

Tato7069 t1_j8761sx wrote on February 12, 2023 at 3:36 AM

So again... What's the point in creating a copy that thinks it's you? Wtf do you get out of that?

Artanthos t1_j8bqr9m wrote on February 13, 2023 at 3:11 AM

Continuation: from the copies perspective they are me and encompass all that I have ever been.

If there are multiple copies then, when I come to a fork in the road, I chose both. No more wondering what happens on the path not chosen.

In more practical terms, in the future there come well be journeys from which there can be no return. I.e., the clones will never have a chance of meeting. Be that separate simulations with no crossover or colony ships headed in different directions. From the copies point of view, each would be the sole version of me.

And point of view is everything.