The theory that I’m being copied and destroyed over and over again doesn’t explain anything additional that I can think of,
I think both of you are sorta failing to address (or not addressing clearly enough) the point that objects being “copied” “destroyed” or “persisted” is not really meaningful at the level of physics at all—like envisioning electrons as billiard balls, it’s mapping a concept that’s intuitive in one’s mind onto the physical world where it does not apply.
At the bottommost level of quantum physics that we know of, electrons have no identity. From what I gather to “destroy” an electron from here and “copy” it there is indistinguishable physically (even in principle) from “moving” it from here to there. Those are concepts which are differentiatable in our adapted-via-evolution minds, not in reality.
That having been said I don’t dismiss your concerns about uploading altogether because we still aren’t unconfused enough about consciousness to be able to clarify to ourselves what the fuck it’s supposed to do… I would really like to be unconfused about qualia and the nature of existence before I do any uploading of myself.
I think both of you are sorta failing to address (or not addressing clearly enough) the point that objects being “copied” “destroyed” or “persisted” is not really meaningful at the level of physics at all—like envisioning electrons as billiard balls, it’s mapping a concept that’s intuitive in one’s mind onto the physical world where it does not apply.
At the bottommost level of quantum physics that we know of, electrons have no identity. From what I gather to “destroy” an electron from here and “copy” it there is indistinguishable physically (even in principle) from “moving” it from here to there. Those are concepts which are differentiatable in our adapted-via-evolution minds, not in reality.
That having been said I don’t dismiss your concerns about uploading altogether because we still aren’t unconfused enough about consciousness to be able to clarify to ourselves what the fuck it’s supposed to do… I would really like to be unconfused about qualia and the nature of existence before I do any uploading of myself.