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Would you transfer your consciousness to a robot for immortality? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wouldn't. Immortality sounds miserable to me.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There are arguments which state that when you “transfer” consciousness, there is no continuity of consciousness, meaning we are at best making a copy and destroying the original. While your copy would wake up as though nothing happened, the original you gets destroyed in the process and never actually gets to enjoy the transference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This. That's one of the dilemmas with making clones of people. It's already hard to pinpoint that exact integrity of a human (cells are constantly changing) and replacing them altogether just doesn't make sense anymore. Pragmatically speaking, it won't benefit you at the slightest, but, provided your clone is the exact copy, your friends might not see the difference. Even still, would they still be your friends whilst knowing the "true" you is gone?

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