If the copy cannot see the original at the time of copying, would it feel any different than just being teleported to the destination? Which is impossible because it violates special relativity, but we can still, I think, argue what the subjective experience would be if it was.
Well, in mundane cases where awareness of the transition from point A to B is lost—blackouts, amnesia, failures of attention, etc. -- the experience is sometimes of a sudden translation, and sometimes of nothing in particular (that is, you’re just at B now, and the fact that you don’t remember getting there isn’t particularly called to your attention), and sometimes of not realizing that anything in particular has happened, and sometimes other things.
I imagine you’d get a similar range in these more speculative cases.
(nods) I’d really hope so too. I’d even expect it, I think. That said, brains do some astonishingly broken things along these lines.
If the copy cannot see the original at the time of copying, would it feel any different than just being teleported to the destination? Which is impossible because it violates special relativity, but we can still, I think, argue what the subjective experience would be if it was.
Well, in mundane cases where awareness of the transition from point A to B is lost—blackouts, amnesia, failures of attention, etc. -- the experience is sometimes of a sudden translation, and sometimes of nothing in particular (that is, you’re just at B now, and the fact that you don’t remember getting there isn’t particularly called to your attention), and sometimes of not realizing that anything in particular has happened, and sometimes other things.
I imagine you’d get a similar range in these more speculative cases.