• fading_person@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    But would a rearrangement of our atoms into identical beings be the same person as us? Maybe it would be just different consciousnesses having the same experiences, and we would never be back.

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      19 hours ago

      i think the theory is that at some point it would be exactly the same

      but i think this is not like backed up by anything really, and mostly a thought experiment.