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It's totally safe. What are you afraid of? (media.piefed.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It would think it’s you, but it’s not.

Cogito, ergo sum. I am not the collection of atoms I was when I was born and I am not a continuity of consciousness from before the last time I slept.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    You are rejecting modern philosophy of mind so you can embrace science fiction and (more likely) wild fantasies about defeating mortality

    Again this would upend everything we know about biology, physics, and neuroscience.

    If the Descartes quote is all you care about then it’s potentially a different story. Like do you want to live forever or exist forever? Different things. Elon musk is probably chasing both but okay with the latter, for example

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Well I'm pretty sure it's impossible technology so it's not upending anything, but mostly I just don't think the "self" is as rare and precious as a bunch of people seem to.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    That’s a different argument. Is consciousness meaningful? Yes, because I like it, but of course someone who is passively suicidal will disagree. Who is right? Debatable. That doesn’t change theory of mind though.

    Edit: this is an example I don’t mean to imply you’re passively suicidal, to be clear

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