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I’m of the view that you can possibly duplicate consciousness but you can never send “me”. I’m stuck on the consciousness I’ve got. If you tried to upload my consciousness somewhere I’d still be sitting here like “hey look there’s another one of me”, but I’d not experience some shift in perspective myself.

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No, you are your consciousness. The self exists only in the story the mind tells itself, so both versions would think they are the original you.

Besides, the serialisation process is a form of quantum measurement. Depending on how coarse-grained it is, there might be no way to take a snapshot without modifying you (maybe the measurement process turns the original brain matter into soup).

They would think they are the original you, but I think the GP was saying that the original perspective would continue on the original consciousness-continuity/body/hardware.

Cloning a hard drive can produce the same data, but without any networking, there's no reason for the original machine to know anything from the perspective of the new one

I hope it will be possible to digitize my brain one neuron at a time, preserving the continuity of my consciousness.

So by sleeping and breaking your consciousness stream, you die, and a new consciousness wakes up thinking it is you. With your memories and physical makeup.

Need to Ship of Theseus your neurons with digital equivalents. Every cell in your body is replaced within seven years, so can be a gradual digitalization.

Exactly what I was thinking. Note however that most neurons in your brain never get replaced naturally. An interesting extension of this idea is to replace one biological neuron with two digital copies, doing the same thing in parallel. Eventually two brain copies can be created with shared or duplicated consciousness.

I find this a scary topic, like touching a hot stove. Try as hard as I can but I can't figure out (and overall nobody has so far) how the "self" experience works.

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