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[deleted] OP t1_j9sapgr wrote

Reply to comment by petermobeter in Fading qualia thought experiment and what it implies by [deleted]

Here is a thought experiment for you. Imagine at age 5 you were frozen and then your mind was scanned and your body destroyed. Now imagine that at this time someone created an entity that was exactly the same as you are now (memories and everything). Now ask yourself, is this objectively any different from your current existence?

You in this very moment are literally a "clone" that thinks it's the same being that existed many years ago. How you achieved this belief of continuity is completely immaterial from the perspective of your brain as the only way it can consciously experience this is through memory.

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petermobeter t1_j9setmv wrote

i understand that, i get it, youre sayin the 2 scenarios i proposed are the same thing because If it THINKS it’s me, it IS me

but……. im just really worried that my stream of consiousness is gonna end permanently when i die, regardless of future technology enabling full-brain emulation of ancestors.

will i wake up after i die, or will “i” wake up after i die? please please please tell me it’s the former 🥺 or that the latter includes the former!

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[deleted] OP t1_j9ss14m wrote

Objectively speaking, "you" simply does not exist in the first place. The "you" that exists now is a different being than the one that existed when you were 3. What I think is that the self is a delusion similar to cotards syndrome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBOfgTP0nVg

When a people suffer from cotards syndrome they are convinced that hey are dead despite the contrary. Selfhood seems to me as a similar delusion but one that we all share. We are convinced that we are all discrete and immutable entities despite all evidence pointing to the contrary. The difference between selfhood and cotards delusion though is that belief in the self has evolutionary benefits as it allows us to easily conceptualize the things we need to do to survive.

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turnip_burrito t1_j9vv9m1 wrote

It may even be that we are also different second to second. 🤔

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