By this logic you’re always dying because your relation to the universe and space and time are constantly changing
i’m not destroyed in my voyage, my brain’s physical activity flows from moment to moment. the physics of our world must reconcile space and time to quantum mechanics and from there biology. forget that for a moment, i know it’s said that continuity interpretations lead us to saying i die if i fall asleep or get put into cryotherapy for medical emergencies (honestly i think one of those things is genuinely not like the others) but the implications are still more intuitive than the identity interpretation. you have to account for how consciousness is transmitted/stored in the interval when we agree it no longer exists and which of two simultaneously awakened copies is the rightful heir to the pattern donor’s mind. two laptops same make and factory of origin put side by side running the same software are still two distinct entities not the same one. the keyboard on one will not send instructions to both in and of itself.
Did I die when I was hit by a car and lost three weeks of memory? I just woke up in rehab one day, not really remembering anything that had happened before that moment. I blinked from one day to the hospital. My relation to the universe and space and time were changed with a very severe continuity disruption, way beyond simply going to sleep in one place and waking up somewhere else.
i think, honestly and i don’t say this to be a debatelord, if you depend on the idea that the technology will become available to resurrect you from this fascist hell then there’s a larger problem than feasibility. they’d need a cache of your brain state. that won’t come from the fascists. it’s not a healthy mechanism
I’m only saying that a simulation of me is me, not basing any sort of religious faith on this actually happening. It’s probably more likely than not that the human species will go extinct because fascists will burn all the coal and oil and launch every nuke. The current trajectory is not to build the god machine, it’s to kill everyone - another reason Roko’s Basilisk is absurd.
i’m not destroyed in my voyage, my brain’s physical activity flows from moment to moment. the physics of our world must reconcile space and time to quantum mechanics and from there biology. forget that for a moment, i know it’s said that continuity interpretations lead us to saying i die if i fall asleep or get put into cryotherapy for medical emergencies (honestly i think one of those things is genuinely not like the others) but the implications are still more intuitive than the identity interpretation. you have to account for how consciousness is transmitted/stored in the interval when we agree it no longer exists and which of two simultaneously awakened copies is the rightful heir to the pattern donor’s mind. two laptops same make and factory of origin put side by side running the same software are still two distinct entities not the same one. the keyboard on one will not send instructions to both in and of itself.
Did I die when I was hit by a car and lost three weeks of memory? I just woke up in rehab one day, not really remembering anything that had happened before that moment. I blinked from one day to the hospital. My relation to the universe and space and time were changed with a very severe continuity disruption, way beyond simply going to sleep in one place and waking up somewhere else.
i think, honestly and i don’t say this to be a debatelord, if you depend on the idea that the technology will become available to resurrect you from this fascist hell then there’s a larger problem than feasibility. they’d need a cache of your brain state. that won’t come from the fascists. it’s not a healthy mechanism
I’m only saying that a simulation of me is me, not basing any sort of religious faith on this actually happening. It’s probably more likely than not that the human species will go extinct because fascists will burn all the coal and oil and launch every nuke. The current trajectory is not to build the god machine, it’s to kill everyone - another reason Roko’s Basilisk is absurd.