• 4lan@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    You have to make a lot of assumptions for any of that to be true.

    Your consciousness is the sum of electrical signals and stored data. The same way that if you throw a computer into a fire the data is gone forever.

    The energy in your body is what continues on forever, not the data.
    There is no law of conservation of data. That is not a thing

    I see a large trend of people just completely rejecting reality for fantasies. I would love it if my consciousness continued on forever, but that is not the truth. There is zero evidence of this. When you dye your body will rot and the energy will be returned to the earth. I think that is more beautiful

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      11 hours ago

      There is no glory or beauty in Oblivion, what you describe is not a fade to black, but a fade to invisible.

      Additionally your idea assumes that what makes me think and feel is the accumulation of data by itself.

      No matter how smart a computer gets, it’s not going to start thinking for itself. The rise of AI Hallucination has proved that.

      General AI will not be found until we can see the human soul in a microscope.