RE: Would you live in VR?
May 15, 2016 at 5:03 am
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2016 at 5:04 am by Excited Penguin.)
As you describe it, I wouldn't know it's not real, so I presume I wouldn't remember anything about the old life or the fact that I entered VR, so that would pretty much be the same as dying, but then before dying, imagining you're reincarnating in some random bird you see on a branch.
It wouldn't be comforting to me at all that "some version of me" would live a happy life. It wouldn't be me, since apparently you'd wipe my memory first - everything that makes me, me. So I definitely wouldn't. But give me that choice without any memory loss and it's a no-brainer. Also, I see no reason why we won't be able to live infinitely in our VR soon enough for real.
It wouldn't be comforting to me at all that "some version of me" would live a happy life. It wouldn't be me, since apparently you'd wipe my memory first - everything that makes me, me. So I definitely wouldn't. But give me that choice without any memory loss and it's a no-brainer. Also, I see no reason why we won't be able to live infinitely in our VR soon enough for real.
EP
