• Wrrzag@lemmy.ml
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    19 days ago

    Because I don’t really care about what the copy can do and think, because I’ll be dead. My self disappears, even if someone else has a copy of it.

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      18 days ago

      What makes you think that “your self” exists as anything else but an emergent property of your brain existing?

      You’re just describing a feeling that we all share, but there’s no indication that it’s more than that. Check out my writings about this topic (link to a scientific book coming to the same conclusion at the end)

      https://phil.red/blog/2025/9/5/identity-illusion