Patternism is usually defined as a belief about the metaphysics of consciousness, but that boils down to incoherence, so it’s better defined as a property of a utility function of agents not minding being subjected to major discontinuities in functionality, ie, being frozen, deconstructed, reduced to a pattern of information, reconstructed in another time and place, and resumed.
That still sounds like a metaphysical belief, and less empirical since consciousness experience isn’t involved in it (instead it sounds like it’s just about personal identity).
That still sounds like a metaphysical belief, and less empirical since consciousness experience isn’t involved in it (instead it sounds like it’s just about personal identity).