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Consciousness could last hours after ‘death’ (www.thetimes.com)
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The news was presented at the AAAS meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Anna Fowler presented a synthesis of dozens of studies on near-death experiences and neuroelectrical activity around cardiac arrest. - https://particle.news/story/aaas-presentation-argues-consciousness-may-persist-minutes-to-hours-after-clinical-death

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

So if you "recreated my data", would that be a clone of me, or would my consciousness "jump to it"

And if the latter, how does that work?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    The idea is that your conciousness isn't magical or special or something that needs to jump anywhere, I save a game, I turn off my pc for a few million years, move the save file to a different computer, start it up and the game continues.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Problem with that: It is impossible to transfer a file. The best you can do is copy it and delete the original.

    So how do you upload a human brain and be sure that's you and not a copy.

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