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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

how does one know that the duplicate doesn’t somehow inherit the original consciousness, and some new one with the memories and personality of it doesn’t get immediately generated in the original body?

Consciousness is brain activity. New brain = new activity = new consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The activity of something is essentially information (consider how computer programs are ultimately just the activity of the components of a computer). If I copy information from one substrate to another, and do so with no changes, I don't have any new information. Applying that back to brains, assuming that consciousness really is only brain activity (which seems highly likely, but since we don't really understand the nature of consciousness, isn't completely proven), then I'd disagree with the new brain= new activity step

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If I copy information from one substrate to another, and do so with no changes, I don’t have any new information.

But you have a different instance of it. If there were no distinction, copyright wouldn't exist.