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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
I was assuming a simplified scenario where the rule of transferring to the digital world is that you agree to have your physical form rendered obsolete the moment your VR self wakes up, or at least keep them synced and never have them function simultaneously. but yes, if you have two exact duplicate minds then they start becoming more distinct with each moment that both are conscious separately.
digital Ford says that duplicate minds in the real world still don't work, but he's able to stay sane as long as he remains all digital. that's why I think the Forge was built for digital immortality, since they never seemed to solve the problem of degrading inside a host.
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I come from a viewpoint that there is no continuity from a biological to digital/synthetic host. Who we are and what we experience and perceive is located in the brain. Our CPU. I think, theoretically, there might be a way to map and recreate that, but it would just be a copy. One that diverges at the point the copy is made.
So in this scenario, you can agree to die while your copy lives on. Essentially, the concept and presentation of "you" as a person still exists, but you as a conscious, thinking, experiencing being ends. I would never pay money for that personally, nor would I actually be interested in having that technology available. But that's all due to my belief on who I am and how I continue to exist. Clone Yamer wouldn't be me, he would be his own independent, distinct, thinking, and self-aware being with shared personality traits and memories.
I think it's super interesting that the show presents this degradation of duplicated minds in the real world, but survives in the digital. And I like that they can't explain it. Frankly, I would be OK if they never resolve that in the show. It's fun thinking about this kind of stuff.
The Forge/Valley/whatever is the ends of a vain and wholly misunderstood way to live forever.