MOVED TO PLUSH.CITYany mf who honestly thinks that uploading your mind into a computer will let you live forever has never had to restore a file from 12 years ago in a format that doesn't exist anymore
also: how do you even "upload" your mind? your consciousness is stored in physical form - neural pathways. even if you find a way to somehow transfer them into digital form, i am not sure that the copy of your brain will be the actual you with YOUR OWN consciousness, and not just an independent copy of you.
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🐾 ⎇@tillianisafox This is possibly the deepest philosophical rabbit hole you can go down, not recommended at all lol
The idea is that your consciousness is just a kind of information processing that if uploaded (with the original presumably destroyed) would be you, heck you don't cease to exist when your brain is temporarily unconscious like under anesthesia.
But if you go into cloning while keeping the original, that's when the paradox appears.
In the end we have no freaking idea.
@tillianisafox Some try to dismiss it via quantum mechanics, because if that's indeed needed for consciousness to arise somehow, then you physically can't make perfect copies, you can only transfer the information one way. But that's very mystical and it's not clear how it would even work, because even a single neuron is at macro scale compared to this.
Maybe the split consciousness somehow diverges, but if both instances could've been valid, how does the spooky action at a distance happen?
@tillianisafox There's honestly lots more, it goes freaking DEEP and it's scary.
@tillianisafox I guess to answer the immortality question, the form I'd be most comfortable would be a brain in a jar with virtual embodiment, if we can keep the biological structure alive, why risk it? Though lacking a physical self-sufficient body is a vulnerable position for sure, and I'm not sure how to solve governance with that approach, because you'd probably want to store brains deep underground, so some freak accident doesn't wipe you out.