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jl_theprofessor t1_j1fcde7 wrote

Reply to comment by Durris in When do you guys think teleportation will be a means of commercial travel? by Practical_Put_3892

Someone else would be waking up feeling exactly as I do now. Not me.

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Durris t1_j1fcn6q wrote

So just like being uploaded into a computer?

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jl_theprofessor t1_j1fdezl wrote

Yeah which is another thing I wouldn’t do.

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Durris t1_j1fe3kr wrote

So you would take death and nothingness over continued consciousness?

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jl_theprofessor t1_j1feswf wrote

If I upload my consciousness to a computer I will be able to interact with it because it will be a separate entity. Not me.All that would do is create two of me.

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Durris t1_j1ffmhs wrote

You are your consciousness sitting in a sack of meat that takes a while to spoil. If you would rather die in that meat than be inside a computer or in another body, that's your prerogative. I would however point out that you just said that it would make two of you.

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ShadowDefuse t1_j1fgeb4 wrote

you get death and nothingness either way. it would be a copy of you that continues on. seems like you’re misunderstanding

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Durris t1_j1fhod0 wrote

You are your consciousness. As long as that continues, you are alive. An exact copy of you is still you. Do you feel that a person in a coma with no conscious thought wakes up and is now a different person?

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gerkletoss t1_j1fewfx wrote

How do you know that doesn't happen every morning?

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