I feel like everyone’s forgotten that the reason Kelly was ambivalent about joining the digital afterlife was because her late husband wasn’t there and she’d have no chance to be with him if it turned out there was some other kind of afterlife. It was, at most, a bittersweet ending for her.
Yeah, I never got that. I mean, I got what they were going for, but the realist in me always sees what goes into a “digital afterlife” as being a copy with no continuity of consciousness. The copy could still miss her husband, though, and I wasn’t even thinking about that TBH.
I guess the way I saw it was that “If there is an afterlife, that wouldn’t have been ‘her’ in the machine and she’d have been able to have both.”.
I feel like everyone’s forgotten that the reason Kelly was ambivalent about joining the digital afterlife was because her late husband wasn’t there and she’d have no chance to be with him if it turned out there was some other kind of afterlife. It was, at most, a bittersweet ending for her.
Yeah, I never got that. I mean, I got what they were going for, but the realist in me always sees what goes into a “digital afterlife” as being a copy with no continuity of consciousness. The copy could still miss her husband, though, and I wasn’t even thinking about that TBH.
I guess the way I saw it was that “If there is an afterlife, that wouldn’t have been ‘her’ in the machine and she’d have been able to have both.”.
exactly, total SOMA situation.
I don’t think anyone will ever be able to convince me of ‘transferrance’ of the mind/soul through digital means. it’s copying