I wouldn't be surprised if in (n hundreds/thousands years) we find out that copying consciousness if fundamentally impossible (just like it's fundamentally impossible to copy an elementary particle).

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alfiedotwtf an hour ago | parent [-]

Elementary particles are suspiciously indistinguishable, so even if you could copy an electron, you wouldn't even be able to tell!

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

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bananaflag an hour ago | parent [-]

They meant this, which refers to copying the state of a particle into another (already existing) particle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

And basically, about consciousness, what they said is true if our brain state fundamentally depends on quantum effects (which I personally don't believe, as I don't think evolution is sophisticated enough to make a quantum computer)

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sedan_baklazhan an hour ago | parent [-]

>as I don't think evolution is sophisticated enough to make a quantum computer

Well, evolution managed to make something that directly contradicts the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and creates more and more complicated structures (including living creatures as well as their creations), instead of happily dissolving in the Universe.

And this fact alone hasn't been explained yet.

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bananaflag an hour ago | parent [-]

https://www.sciencesnail.com/science/the-highly-ordered-natu...

	▲	sedan_baklazhan an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This is a bad explanation (or a non-explanation). 1. Why exactly life is attempting to build complex structures? 2. Why exactly life is evolving from primitive replicative molecules to more complex structures (which molecules on themselves are very complicated?) 3. Why and how did these extremely complicated replicative molecules form at all, from much more simple structures, to begin with?