Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.

• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t try to get philosophical about this. There is a hard difference between copying a brain and actually transferring consciousness.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don’t try to get philosophical about this.

    Er? It’s a philosophical conversation since you know brain uploading is not a thing.

    If you don’t want to engage in philosophy, you’re in the wrong place.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re mixing up speculative and philosophical.

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• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’d have to experience death for the clone to continue being the only copy.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah. In the example above the original is dead, and a clone with all of your memories up until the point of death is generated.

    In that case, there is continuity of concussions, at least as far as anyone can tell, least of all the clone.

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