You know those sci-fi teleporters like in Star Trek where you disappear from one location then instantaneously reappear in another location? Do you trust that they are safe to use?

To fully understand my question, you need to understand the safety concerns regarding teleporters as explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI

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I wouldn’t, because the person that reappears aint me, its a fucking clone. Teleporters are murder machines. Star Trek is a silent massacre!

      • penguin@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        1 year ago

        So you’d be fine with a scientist creating a perfect clone of you, and then killing you, letting the clone take your place?

        If it had the same memories.

            • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
              21·
              1 year ago

              Then let me tell you that Consciousness is based on memory. Memory copied => “you” copied, debate done.

              • penguin@sh.itjust.works
                11·
                1 year ago

                Consciousness is not based on memory or else computers would be considered conscious.

                And if according to what you’re saying, a clone with all of your memories would mean you have two points of view. I could take your clone into a different room and you’d be able to tell me what they see. But it obviously wouldn’t work like that because your own sense of self would still be locked in your head and the clone would get its own sense of self, albeit one with the same memories.

                  • penguin@sh.itjust.works
                    11·
                    1 year ago

                    There is no reason what you describe should give rise to consciousness rather than a biological artificial intelligence. The sense of self, the perspective that feels like me peering out through my eyes, is not explained by anything you said.

                    A copy of me does not equal me because we’d both have separate senses of self. Having copied memories does nothing to affect that.