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PTSD Complex is no joke.
If you are unconscious during the process, you wouldn’t feel it happening.
The risk? What if you never wake up?
If the transfer only creates a copy, but your original brain remains, then "you" (the original) just die, while your copy wakes up thinking nothing happened.
If you are unconscious during the process, you wouldn’t feel it happening.
The risk? What if you never wake up?
If the transfer only creates a copy, but your original brain remains, then "you" (the original) just die, while your copy wakes up thinking nothing happened.
1. Instantaneous Transfer (While Awake)
Imagine you’re sitting in a transfer machine, and at the press of a button, your consciousness is uploaded into a bionic body.
In theory, you should still feel like you.
1. Instantaneous Transfer (While Awake)
Imagine you’re sitting in a transfer machine, and at the press of a button, your consciousness is uploaded into a bionic body.
In theory, you should still feel like you.
Imagine your old self dies, and a backup from yesterday is put into a new body. That "you" won’t remember the moment before you died... so is that you or just another version of you?
Imagine your old self dies, and a backup from yesterday is put into a new body. That "you" won’t remember the moment before you died... so is that you or just another version of you?
If the original still exists, are there now two "yous"?
Or is the original just left behind, while the uploaded one is a new person who thinks they’re you?
If the original still exists, are there now two "yous"?
Or is the original just left behind, while the uploaded one is a new person who thinks they’re you?