• Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
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    4 days ago

    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.”.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      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