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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
that's if your real and virtual minds exist at the same time. long as you shut off the flesh bag after the download, you get to enjoy your VR immortality and not have to worry about what your other self is doing.
now if things get really Black Mirrorish and there's copies of you everywhere, then that gets murky real fast. with my luck I'd probably get stuck in the one simulation where the Oilers are perennial cup champions...or dammit am I already living in a version where the team I cheer for is doomed to perpetual mediocrity?
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But how do you transfer your 'self' (active consciousness) to a machine? If they co-exist as separate and distinct, they are separate and distinct regardless. You can't just automatically switch to the other when you biologically die.
Once the brain dies, you cease to exist.
A copy is a separate continuance. True immortality can only exist if you can find a way to keep your brain functioning and then connect it to a virtual world, or transplant it into another biological or synthetic vessel.