You seem to approach the possible existence of a copy like a premise, with as question whether that copy is you. However, what if we reverse that? Given we define ‘a copy of you’ as another one of you, how certain is it that a copy of you could be made given our physics? What feats of technology are necessary to make that copy?
Also, what would we need to do to verify that a claimed copy is an actual copy? If I run ChatGPT-8 and ask it to behave like you would behave based on your brain scan and it manages to get 100% fidelity in all tests you can think of, is it a copy of you? Is a copy of you inside of it? If not, in what ways does the computation that determines an alleged copy’s behavior have to match your native neuronal computation for it to be or contain a copy? Can a binary computer get sufficient fidelity?
I’m fine with uploading to a copy of myself. I’m not as optimistic about a company with glowing reviews offering to upload/make a copy of me.
You seem to approach the possible existence of a copy like a premise, with as question whether that copy is you. However, what if we reverse that? Given we define ‘a copy of you’ as another one of you, how certain is it that a copy of you could be made given our physics? What feats of technology are necessary to make that copy?
Also, what would we need to do to verify that a claimed copy is an actual copy? If I run ChatGPT-8 and ask it to behave like you would behave based on your brain scan and it manages to get 100% fidelity in all tests you can think of, is it a copy of you? Is a copy of you inside of it? If not, in what ways does the computation that determines an alleged copy’s behavior have to match your native neuronal computation for it to be or contain a copy? Can a binary computer get sufficient fidelity?
I’m fine with uploading to a copy of myself. I’m not as optimistic about a company with glowing reviews offering to upload/make a copy of me.