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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14869314

"I want to live forever in AI"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Makes me wonder how many times I've been replaced. Also makes me wonder if I just died yesterday and today I'm actually a new person. I have no evidence that yesterday happened except for a memory of it, and let's face it, since it was a public holiday, that's a pretty foggy memory

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

yeah, went down this rabbit hole recently: what if I'm the .001% that lives until ? or what if 'me' is an amalgam of all the ones that die, and I get to live all those lives until the variable runs out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I wonder about that. During the deepest part of sleep does your brain have enough activity to maintain a continuous stream of consciousness? If you go through two sleep cycles in a night does yesterday you die, and you from the first sleep cycle who only dreamed die, and you're a new consciousness in the morning?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Dreaming is just the brain butchering who you were and placing whatever's left in storage as decaying trophies.