Darcey Riley Retweeted Aella
The idea of "continuity of self" is part of the human conceptual system, not part of the actual physical world (map, not territory). As with many concepts that are core to human experience, it works great under normal circumstances but breaks down under edge cases like this one.https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1166968896978477056 …
Darcey Riley added,
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You die. They scan and upload your brain to the fancy simulation in the sky.
Would your experience be a continual you - as in you die and wake up in a new digital environment - or does your experience end, and the thing in the fancy simulation is a new thing entirely?
6:00 PM - 30 Aug 2019
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