I am me? I am memory? Am I me? Alive or dead?

Bert 2022-03-22 09:01:47

Human memory can be copied, which is very good,

so the people in the film "resurrect" again and again, and they think that the resurrected person is "I". In

this way, human existence is only composed of a series of memories, as long as there is a carrier to carry it These memories, I am "I"

but something went wrong in the end. When the last BOSS wanted to "resurrect" himself, he died because he lived 5 minutes longer! He saw his "resurrected" self, so he died . That is to say, there is a difference in the memory of the BOSS and the "resurrected" BOSS, so they become two people. The difference in memory is only 5 minutes.

The problem is, assuming that the machine can update the memory and retrieve the memory of the BOSS for the last time to The 5-minute memory of his death is extracted and updated into the resurrected BOSS's brain, so the memory of the "resurrected" BOSS and the original BOSS are exactly the same, but the original BOSS still "thinks" that he is dead. Because the original BOSS saw The "resurrected" BOSS died after being resurrected, and his logical thinking thought he was dead. But assuming the original BOSS died first, in the process of retrieving the memory, some insignificant 5-minute memories were erased, and when inputting to the clone, he still That he is alive. That is to say, living and dying are only our subjective consciousness... The

problem is again
if a person knows that he will be cloned before he dies, then after he is cloned, he thinks that he is not dead.

If the person died before he died Not knowing that he is going to be cloned, he is the same as the hypothetical BOSS situation. The original body thinks that he is dead, and the clone is consistent with the original body's memory. So after he is cloned, is the original body dead or alive?

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The 6th Day quotes

  • Adam Gibson: I might be back.

  • Adam Gibson: If you really believe that then you should clone yourself while you're still alive.

    Drucker: Why is that? So I can understand your unique perspective?

    Adam Gibson: No. So you can go fuck yourself!

    [Later, when Drucker's clone is lying on the real Drucker]

    Adam Gibson: When I told you fuck yourself, I didn't mean for you to take it literally.