Simplest argument why original consciousness doesn't survive in another instance of the same mind
If we talk about survival, it essentially means survival or original consciousness, the human subjective experience. Then ask yourself how many instances of subjective experience are you running right now? If you're like me, there's only one instance. And there can only be one. If you claim you can run multiple instances of subjective experience, either you're crazy or you are just hoping without any evidence that you could. You are not running multiple instances right now so how could you possibly know that you could have multiple instances? Then, let's say we make bunch of copies of your mind. It will be true that each copy will be conscious and posses its own subjective experience that will claim to be the original you. However, we started with an assumption that there can only be one original subjective experience, therefore, if we have 5 instances of subjective experience, 4 of them must not be original instances. Therefore, creating additional copies of your mind doesn't preserve your subjective experience. If original instance dies, your subjective experience dies with it regardless of how many copies of that subjective experience are made.
posted by Heartland @ 10:26 AM
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