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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
I've thought about the whole "uploading your consciousness into a computer" thing a lot, but I couldn't seem to wrap my head around how it could be possible.
I mean, let's say that there's a computer capable of mimicking the human brain 100 percent, and there's a method of duplicating someone's brain exactly, onto this computer. The person would still "be" the one in the brain, and there would simply be a computer with the exact same thought process, memories, etc... but the actual consciousness of being you and experiencing things yourself wouldn't change.
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I've thought the exact same thing about this. You would still die. All that would be left behind would be a machine that thought it was you.
The same problem exists with teleportation if you think about it. If you used a teleportation device you would be killed, torn apart atom by atom. On the other end of the teleportation an exact duplicate of you would be created. It would look like you, talk like you, act like you, it would even think it was you, but it would still be nothing more than a duplicate of the original.
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