alt Hacker NewsAnd yet I'm not exactly the same person as the one who hadn't yet read your comment, nor the same as the one an hour ago, not the one that woke up this morning.
Maybe exactly the same isn't the right metric after all.
And yet I'm not exactly the same person as the one who hadn't yet read your comment, nor the same as the one an hour ago, not the one that woke up this morning.
Maybe exactly the same isn't the right metric after all.
This is true. But I'm talking about fundamental substrate and the rules by which it operates, not just the flow of time — that's probably both a qualitative and quantitative difference. Additionally, even if it's not about being the exact same, although you could view brain uploading as a continuation of the species, in some sense, then — you still couldn't view it as a continuation of the same individual... because that guy/gal is right there!