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.

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    12 days ago

    Depends how “you” is defined.

    If you’re talking about your ghost, then no that can’t be copied because it’s an imaginary thing of which there is no evidence, a projection of your mind if you will.

    OTOH if “you” is just a collection of memories stored in a physical structure then yes, a molecular level printer could reproduce it.

    The bobiverse series of books encounters this question. Probably my favourite series.