If you could have your body destroyed and immediately recreated somewhere else for $1million dollars

> If you could have your body destroyed and immediately recreated somewhere else for $1million dollars

Sure, but I don't have a mil-- oh wait.

I absolutely would, but it's not so much a value judgment as a rather pointless thought exercise. I'm not going to test the device while I'm still healthy, and the offer will have been rescinded when it's proven to produce a perfect copy.
 
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Mysterious Capitalist said:
I don't doubt that the clone would be equal to me to the quantum level and indistinguishable from me to *any* outside observer, no matter how minutely accurate they are. And the clone would indeed believe to be me by the fact that everything about them is what I am right now. And yet, the moment you kill me and disintegrate me, is the moment the me that is existing right now stops... well, existing, to make space for a new me that's created with their new body that's exactly like mine with memories exactly like mine and physical information just like mine. I'd tell you that the clone isn't me, but I'd be busy being dead; a bunch of atoms recycled into another human being that's me in everything aside from the fact that they're not the me that exists right now, but someone exactly like me that would eventually exists at that point, in a new consciousness continuity.

It's like in a videogame where you can make custom characters: if a character dies and you copy the template to make a new, identical one and move on, is the new character just a continuation of the old one? From appearance down to the lines of code that make the character, they are the same; and yet, the first instance of the character did die to make way to the second. There was a disruption, and that's enough for me to decline it.
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I'm glad i'm not the only one who has thought about this in an exceptional manner. I blame Battlestar Galactica. Recommend the Brit show 'Humans' as a fictionalisation of the topic. Fair enough, don't know if i'd take the cash because it's a mindbender. It's the knowledge that your current state will be destroyed and also a paradox, like meeting a previous/future version of yourself.
 
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New question:
If you could have all your memories deleted from your brain while having everything else remain untouched and functionally exactly the same as before for $1million dollars, would you accept it? Assume any skills you've learnt like language and maths will still be there, but the whole history of your life will be gone and the new you will think it just popped into existence just then.
 
Sure, why the fuck not. I'm already dead inside.

Christo4k47 said:
New question:
If you could have all your memories deleted from your brain while having everything else remain untouched and functionally exactly the same as before for $1million dollars, would you accept it? Assume any skills you've learnt like language and maths will still be there, but the whole history of your life will be gone and the new you will think it just popped into existence just then.
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Double fuck yes.
 
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