What, exactly, does it even mean for “you” to exist for 100k years?
Is the “you” from yesterday “you”? Would you be comfortable with your conscious mind being replaced with the conscious mind of that entity? What about the “you” from tomorrow”? What about the “you” from 100k years in the future? If that’s still “you”, should it be a problem for your mind to be erased, and that mind to be written in its place?
I don’t have a great grasp on the question of “what makes you you”. However, I do feel solid about “yesterday you” = “present moment you” = “100k years from now you”. In which case living for eg. 100k years, there isn’t an issue where it isn’t you that is alive 100k years from now.
If that’s still “you”, should it be a problem for your mind to be erased, and that mind to be written in its place?
Yes, I see that as a problem because it’d still be a short lifespan. You wouldn’t be alive and conscious from years 30 through 100k. I would like to maximize the amount of years that I am alive and conscious (and happy).
Would you willingly go back in time and re-live your life from the beginning, with all the knowledge you have now? Say, knowing what stocks to purchase, what cryptocurrencies are worth buying and when, being able to breeze through education and skip ahead in life, and all the other advantages you would have?
If the answer to that is yes, then observe that this is exactly the same thing.
The point of this being that you don’t actually think of past-you, present-you, and future-you as you in the same sense. You’ll happily overwrite past-you with present-you, but you’d see it as a problem if future-you overwrote present-you, so far as to be equatable to dying.
You’ll happily overwrite past-you with present-you
Why do you say that? I don’t see it as overwriting. I am 28 years old. The way I see it is, I live 28 years, then I go back to the time I was born, then I re-live those 28 years, and so I get to be alive for 56 years.
What, exactly, does it even mean for “you” to exist for 100k years?
Is the “you” from yesterday “you”? Would you be comfortable with your conscious mind being replaced with the conscious mind of that entity? What about the “you” from tomorrow”? What about the “you” from 100k years in the future? If that’s still “you”, should it be a problem for your mind to be erased, and that mind to be written in its place?
I don’t have a great grasp on the question of “what makes you you”. However, I do feel solid about “yesterday you” = “present moment you” = “100k years from now you”. In which case living for eg. 100k years, there isn’t an issue where it isn’t you that is alive 100k years from now.
Yes, I see that as a problem because it’d still be a short lifespan. You wouldn’t be alive and conscious from years 30 through 100k. I would like to maximize the amount of years that I am alive and conscious (and happy).
Would you willingly go back in time and re-live your life from the beginning, with all the knowledge you have now? Say, knowing what stocks to purchase, what cryptocurrencies are worth buying and when, being able to breeze through education and skip ahead in life, and all the other advantages you would have?
If the answer to that is yes, then observe that this is exactly the same thing.
The point of this being that you don’t actually think of past-you, present-you, and future-you as you in the same sense. You’ll happily overwrite past-you with present-you, but you’d see it as a problem if future-you overwrote present-you, so far as to be equatable to dying.
Why do you say that? I don’t see it as overwriting. I am 28 years old. The way I see it is, I live 28 years, then I go back to the time I was born, then I re-live those 28 years, and so I get to be alive for 56 years.