When you transfer a file, for example, all you are really doing is sending a message telling the other machine what bits the file is made up of, and then that other machines creates a file that is just like the original - a copy, while the original still remains in the first machine. Nothing is even actually transferred.

If we apply this logic to consciousness, then to "transfer" your brain to a machine you will have to make a copy, which exist simultaneously with the original you. At that point in time, there will be two different instances of "you"; and in fact, from that point forward, the two instances will begin to create different memories and experience different things, thereby becoming two different identities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And since we know nothing about what consciousness is, you base this on absolutely nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

That's a weird response to the person who is explaining the post to you.