Gilgamesh said:
I get what your saying to live as long as you want in a life like humanoid robot would be quite interesting with all the knowledge of the interent, but the moment that you copy your brain how does it work that your mind is now in two places at once, sure you now have an exact copy of yourself but from now on what the robot experiences will be difference to what you experience, the longer this goes on the more different you both become. Now let's say your about to die from some horrible disease and your copy of yourself is in the robot, when you die how is your conscious going to jump to the robot? Wouldn't you just cease to exist and now this copy of yourself will continue to be you and act like you and really is you from other peoples perspective but really the original conscious is dead and gone. The only way I can figure it to work is that you have to die first and then have your brain and conscious immediately transfer to the robot. I'm mind fucking myself here. |
Except if you backup your "mind" in real time, you would come back as a digital being/analog interface from the last backup, like 3 days ago. It would feel exactly like a memory loss of 3 days, where you wake up thinking "wtf have i done yesterday ?".
For the first part of your post about two intances of you living at the same time it's pretty much ethics and of course, it should be controlled by laws. Your backup shouldn't be conscious at the same time as you are.
Now, imagine your computer hardware dies of an horrible disease and you backup your HDD to an hardware with the exact same capabilities. I've done this with my latest computer as i could have the same model for cheap. When I turned the power on, i was suprised to have exactly the same wallpaper, to still log automatically on VGC, and not having to download endless updates on my online games. It felt exactly the same and if i didn't do it myself, i wouldn't have been conscious it was "different".
I don't think waking up in a different hardware would be any different from sleeping or having a coma, or even having an car accident, loosing a leg and waking up with a prothesis. OFC it's a kind of traumathic experience and you have to get used to your new hardware.
Wheter or not an exact copy is different is an extremely good question, but aren't we different from yesterday already ?
