Lemmywinks

That’s okay, drinking in bars is a popular group activity 😊

Really? Things have clearly changed in the 25 years since my last school trip then. We didn’t go to bars with our teachers, but we had plenty of free time in the evenings, some of which was definitely spent in bars.

My thoughts exactly. Oxygen Not Included too.

What you’re saying isn’t the ‘current best guess’ though, it’s a fringe theory which relies on some incredibly speculative concepts with no evidence to back them up (i.e. the assertion that, if you created another brain with the exact same configuration as your current brain then, your conscious experience would automatically transfer over to it. We have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, whereas the concept that the destruction of your brain results in your death is well supported by the available evidence).

We don’t know what consciousness is, that’s my point. It’s called ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ for a reason, there is no consensus.

For claiming that you are what your brain does, and the (implied) correlation that another identical brain would therefore continue to manifest an identical experience. All of this is entirely conjectural, we have no evidence one way or another.

Your caveat that you must be cut and pasted and not copied doesn’t help your argument, in fact it does the opposite, because it is not theoretically impossible that two identical versions of “you” could exist concurrently.

Again, you have no evidence for any of that.

Right, but even if everything did work as intended there is still the possibility that it might not have done, and that possibility helps us understand what is actually happening, which is that you are killed and a copy of you is created somewhere else. There is absolutely no reason to believe that your experience would magically transfer over to that copy.

You have absolutely no reason to believe that.

What happens if there’s a malfunction in the machine and the copy is made at the other end without the original version being destroyed? Do you think you would experience both perspectives simultaneously?

Not the victims, just a comparatively small subsection of their grandchildren.

Race isn’t a real thing, scientifically speaking, it is a social construct (like ‘justice’, or the ‘Easter Bunny’). ‘Racism’ is actually a shorthand for ethnocentrism.

https://youtu.be/ZcO10Fim0C8

Sure, the birds/ants/etc aren’t going to kill the zombies, but without any tendons the zombies aren’t going to pose much of a threat.

I dunno, I’m pretty sure you’d only have to hold out for the few days it would take for the birds/ants/etc to eat through the major tendons on all the zombies, rendering them immobile, and then you’d be completely safe and the massive clean-up project could begin.

No, you’ve remembered that wrong. It is immune to the bacteria that live on its teeth, if it bites you then you get a bacterial infection that leaves you paralysed, then you get very slowly eaten alive by a komodo dragon.