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how does one know that the duplicate doesn’t somehow inherit the original consciousness, and some new one with the memories and personality of it doesn’t get immediately generated in the original body?

Consciousness is brain activity. New brain = new activity = new consciousness.

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CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The activity of something is essentially information (consider how computer programs are ultimately just the activity of the components of a computer). If I copy information from one substrate to another, and do so with no changes, I don’t have any new information. Applying that back to brains, assuming that consciousness really is only brain activity (which seems highly likely, but since we don’t really understand the nature of consciousness, isn’t completely proven), then I’d disagree with the new brain= new activity step

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- Sordid@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  If I copy information from one substrate to another, and do so with no changes, I don’t have any new information.
  
  But you have a different instance of it. If there was no distinction, copyright wouldn’t exist.
  
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