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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Destroy immediately. This sounds like a very bad idea. [/quote]

People are already selling the concept as a way to live forever. Your mind can be uploaded and you can talk to your great grandkids!  For the uber wealthy that can ensure this is how it goes for 100s of years, ok. For the rest of us, we will be enslaved as virtual attorneys, policy analysts, etc doing work computers cant, til by some mercy we are destroyed by a hardware malfunction.  [/quote]

Well, these people are going to be scammed, lol.

Imagine tech exists to transfer your brain digitalized version into the metaverse, where it would have a life of its own.  Just because it's the exact supposed copy of YOU, will this thing BE you? Will you feel what it feels, will YOUR consciousness have continuity in this digital world?  Or will this be a new being separate from you that will continue evolving in its own way? This thought experiment is interesting and should sort of show that you cannot make YOURSELF immortal by making a copy of all of your brain capacity and functions and letting it have a "life" of its own. You won't get a feedback back, and its experiences won't be your experiences.   Imagine you can build a "feedback loop" between your digital version in the metaverse and your brain.  Coo, then it's YOU in that metaverse.  But then your brain dies.. You die.  [/quote]

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