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.”.
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