@tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • edit-24 months agoIf you could split yourself into a copy of yourself, how many copies would you make to satisfy all your wishes?message-square197fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1150arrow-down1message-squareIf you could split yourself into a copy of yourself, how many copies would you make to satisfy all your wishes?@tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • edit-24 months agomessage-square197fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink2•4 months agoMaybe your awareness splits with each copy, so you go from an “I” to a “we.” No such thing as a “master” copy then, just different organs of the same meta entity
minus-square@Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•4 months agoThat’s how I see it! It’s very Buddhist. A lot of folks in the other comments see it as they’re the “Person Prime”, and all the clones are some lesser being. Which I don’t see it that way.
Maybe your awareness splits with each copy, so you go from an “I” to a “we.” No such thing as a “master” copy then, just different organs of the same meta entity
That’s how I see it! It’s very Buddhist.
A lot of folks in the other comments see it as they’re the “Person Prime”, and all the clones are some lesser being. Which I don’t see it that way.