RE: How "reincarnation" might work?
April 4, 2016 at 5:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2016 at 5:43 pm by chasbanner.)
Ben Davis:
Why?
Why is having a separate consciousness so important to defining oneself?
A copy's identity is mostly potential. If you split up and had different experience you *would* indeed become more different.
If you did not separate and develop as separate beings with different experiences and instead could somehow share all knowledge over time it would be difficult to distinguish you apart. One could answer a question asked by the other.
In and of it's self having separate consciousnesses doesn't *do* anything.
And as i said it's "reincarnation" in quotes.
Why?
Why is having a separate consciousness so important to defining oneself?
A copy's identity is mostly potential. If you split up and had different experience you *would* indeed become more different.
If you did not separate and develop as separate beings with different experiences and instead could somehow share all knowledge over time it would be difficult to distinguish you apart. One could answer a question asked by the other.
In and of it's self having separate consciousnesses doesn't *do* anything.
And as i said it's "reincarnation" in quotes.