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Originally Posted by Reverend_Hellh0und  and how would one see out of 2 conciousnesses? |
Consciousness implies singular.
For example, if I had the technology to make a perfect replica of myself.
Doctors knocked me out, updated the copy to be exact at that moment, then woke them both up.
1. There are two distinct minds then, no linkage.
If instead they kill the original me, and wake up the new me.
2. I died. The "new me" is alive, and believes he never died, but in reality I still died, and he is alive. In fact, he was never "alive" before, it just appears to him that it was.
I see no escape from mortality unless it's some sort of transitional movement into a subtrate other than the brain, such that you never really lose functionality. Even then, even given a logical approach to it, I still find it a bit mind-boggling. Probably because the observer is observing their own observation, can't help but get tangled up there.
Then again, how do I know I'm me when I awake every morning and not just a replica with memories transplanted from the former me? I do not...doh!
-Mach