I’ve been watching the TV series Pantheon and I really like it, but this tiny aspect is something I can’t quite grasp. So these people have their minds uploaded to the cloud - and they make a point to state that they’re still “them” - alive, real, authentic. But would it really be like that? The process is brain mapping, so essentially they just make a perfect clone of your brain/mind and run it digitally. But it’s still just a simulation. A perfect clone is still just a clone. The original person is gone. I don’t see the “continuity” aspect.

  • Dr_Box@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Its the same problem with teleportation. If you are disentegrated in one spot and then completely reformed out of new particles in another spot to the new version of you there would be continuity but the old version would have basically died

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      13 days ago

      In many fictional universes, they do move your particles from one spot to the next, though. And even if you want to think of it as a new entity, it’s a 1:1 copy including the body, which is IMO a critical difference to recreating a human brain in digital space.

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Its the same problem with teleportation. If you are disentegrated in one spot and then completely reformed out of new particles in another spot to the new version

      But Scotty’s Beamer wasn’t a real transporter. It consisted of a scanner (not a disintegrator!) and a killer and a creator. If it had been constructed just a little differently, it would have copied you again and again…