Personally, as long as it’s provably safe, I’m fine with it.
As far as I’m concerned, if my consciousness is intact, and my body is a carbon copy, that’s me. I place more weight on my consciousness being me than those specific atoms being me.
Besides, we all shed all of our atoms and replace them with new ones dozens of times throughout our lives. So we’ve already died in that way, I guess? But then again, it doesn’t happen all at once, it’s more of a Ship Body of Theseus type of thing.
99.9% of the time you’d be right. But what if it accidentally made a copy of you. You can argue that you’re still you and rhe other is an independent person, but who gets the rights as the “real” you? All your possessions, bank accounts, debts, job, etc. ?
I see what you mean, but in my mind the chances of that would be so astronomically low that I personally wouldn’t be put off by it. To me it’s a bit like asking “what if the plane blows up?” or “what if the plane gets taken over by terrorists?”
Like yeah it’s a possibility, but if the risk is low enough I’m still gonna go ahead with it for the convenience factor.
Personally, as long as it’s provably safe, I’m fine with it.
As far as I’m concerned, if my consciousness is intact, and my body is a carbon copy, that’s me. I place more weight on my consciousness being me than those specific atoms being me.
Besides, we all shed all of our atoms and replace them with new ones dozens of times throughout our lives. So we’ve already died in that way, I guess? But then again, it doesn’t happen all at once, it’s more of a
ShipBody of Theseus type of thing.99.9% of the time you’d be right. But what if it accidentally made a copy of you. You can argue that you’re still you and rhe other is an independent person, but who gets the rights as the “real” you? All your possessions, bank accounts, debts, job, etc. ?
I see what you mean, but in my mind the chances of that would be so astronomically low that I personally wouldn’t be put off by it. To me it’s a bit like asking “what if the plane blows up?” or “what if the plane gets taken over by terrorists?”
Like yeah it’s a possibility, but if the risk is low enough I’m still gonna go ahead with it for the convenience factor.