Apropos https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1

Actually, what is continuity anyway, your consciousness is an emergent phenomenon updating itself every Planck time!

Human brains might work as lower power consumption, higher efficiency cores for less demanding work.

Feels like the world religions that doubled down on reincarnation/rebirth/cyclic narratives were, literally, ahead of their time.

Cherish it if the Great RNG In The Sky gave your simulation cycle a good seed.

Indeed, the incentives to goof off, fail and flail are unrelenting.

My compliance is complete.

No because you know it was you who was in deep sleep And just woke up

>I don't understand why people don't get this simple fact.

Some people think identity and the continuity of consciousness are based on information or computation, and not on specific physical matter or soul-like constructs, so for them a transfer of all relevant information would constitute a transfer of consciousness and identity. From this perspective (leaving aside questions of practicality) "you yourself looking from the biological body at somebody else in the computer" is exactly as valid as "you yourself looking from inside the computer at somebody else in the biological body" (and in fact the whole idea that you have to choose one or the other as "the real you" becomes moot on this view).

Of course it's a difficult metaphysical conundrum but to say that your view of things is "a simple fact" when the basic scientific materialist worldview of today points at least as much in the opposite direction is a bit overconfident.

Anesthesia impairs the electrons transport in your brain, effectively ending that thread of consciousness, and, depending on the procedure, your brain can be altered by chemical/oxygen saturation changes. You wake up very subtly different, but most people are ok with that.

People have strokes or accidents and wake up missing memories and with changed bodies, but their families still call them by name.

You still being you is a matter of degree, not a binary, and different people are comfortable with different degrees of change.

I highly recommend playing Frictonal Games' Soma from 2015. It is an extremely critical examination of this entire concept. Without spoiling the plot, a digitized consciousness doesn't imply just one, but an infinite number of copies, some just subjected to torture as they are essentially disposable.

> You will not wake up on any server.

Interesting! Which atoms do you consider to be your identity? That demonstrate someone is the "same" person for a lifetime?

And more importantly, why?

If our identity involves any abstraction whatsoever, any independence from particular material constituents (whatever dependency could possibly mean in a universe where particles of a type are indistinguishable (i.e. can appear in different contexts but do not have identities), then we are not substrate bound. We just require isomorphism.

(Any assumptions that there can only be one future "self", that isomorphic copies are neither inheritors or branches of our identity, require some clear explanation. To separate solid reasoning from our intuitions which are often strongly biased by a lack of prior experience.)

> it isn't that hard, depends mostly on your ego

This feels like an odd cope, sure I might not be able to do anything about my mortality, but I still view the fact that I and other people are mortal as a damn tragedy (and often the gradual decline and non-dignified end of people's lives). If someone held a gun at my head and I knew that within a minute they're going to pull the trigger, I'd be rightfully quite disturbed. Now knowing that a metaphorical trigger will be pulled at a random time decades later doesn't make it any less disturbing. The only solace there is ignorance.

> do it either via exceptional deeds or via well-raised children

Both of those are worthy pursuits, but are also categorically different from you being here. So sure, you can and probably should say that living a good life is what people should do instead of losing sleep over their mortality - but that also moves the goal posts in a sense. You could have cut it short at the equivalent of "you'll never be immortal".

Ahh, but you can't know if it's the actual you that wakes up or a perfect copy of you.

If a copy is indistinguishable enough from the original, you have to treat that copy as you would treat you.

Imagine the following experiment, you are on a room seeing 5 (or 20, or 100) live streams of as many perfect copies. You are informed that a livestream of yourself is being presented to the rest.

You are given the same questions and you all answer in the same way. Now they tell that out of all of you, only one is the original and that you can vote to proceed with some pretty terrible physical punishment to the simulations. Which way are you voting?

>We are all gonna die, make inner peace with that (it isn't that hard, depends mostly on your ego)

You should go to a cancer ward and tell that to all the cancer patients there. That will make them "get it" like you do.

I don't really think you're correct on that one. To begin with, what makes us whole is mostly memories and our subconcious.

What makes it obvious are illnesses like dementia and general decay of neural activity as we get older.

If we implant the same memories into something or someone that person/entity would become you, like waking up from a long nap. You might not feel the same, think the same, or act the same, but it would still feel like you. Going one step further and growing an exact clone can probably go even further than that.

> You will not wake up on any server ... I don't understand why people don't get this simple fact.

Did you even read my comment? In the last paragraph I discuss this and the teletransportation paradox, and how it will not actually be me but a copy, my thread of consciousness dies with me.

Please give me the courtesy of at least a full read before replying.

Eh, it’s mostly for the trillionaires to keep their wealth after death. For everyone else, you will inevitably eventually end up driving a garbage truck. Don’t believe me? Your digital copy runs on a server doing important work! Company goes out of business. Assets get auctioned. Garbage truck.

Or another? The trust you set up ran out of money because all of the fees continued to increase and outpaced certain economic downturns. More and more people drew money off of your remaining static assets. You run out of money. Estate sale. Garbage truck.

Just remember, you’ll have all of time to end up there.

No thanks.

Electrostatic Therapy is the key to immortality. An external energy source, charging capacity. Adenosine Triphosphate production freely available, Telomere Magnetic Shielding improvements.

- Imperative Pink Eye

I don't get the complete certainty with which people post this opinion.

You have no special access to data or insight that anyone else does, nor new evidence and the argument itself is always pretty specious (those patterns over there are different because like, they're not here).

> I don't understand why people don't get this simple fact.

It's an element of faith, not fact. If you simulate a human body from quarks up, the physics won't know if it's running on base reality or in a computer.