Would it make a difference if the laws of physics prevent or allow a machine from operating in ‘duplicate’ mode?

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    23 hours ago

    What do you mean by “your experience”?

    There is nothing magic about this. I am what my brain does. My physical brain and its physical contents are cut and pasted.

    Edit: “cut and pasted” is used here like with digital files, to avoid saying “copypasted” because I’m actively avoiding that can of worms of creating concurrently existing copies.

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          22 hours ago

          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.

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            20 hours ago

            That is afaik our current best guess at what consciousness is. If you don’t accept that model as true at least for the moment, I don’t know what we’re talking about.

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              19 hours ago

              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.

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                19 hours ago

                That’s why I said current best guess. If we have no idea at all, this entire discussion is useless and OP should delete.