Stephen Hawking: Brains Could Be Copied To Computers To Allow Life After Death
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« Reply #25 on: October 21, 2013, 01:00:48 PM »

In the end, it seems like it is kind of pointless for prolonging your "life." I mean, if we were to copy our "minds" on to a computer, it would be just that: a copy. We would still be the original file, and therefore wouldn't experience what the copy experiences. So when the original you dies, the other identical one will live on, but "you" won't experience that life if that makes sense. It is kind of like a sci-fi clone, where they are identical and have the same personalities and stuff, but are still different.

Or am I understanding his idea wrong?
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« Reply #26 on: October 21, 2013, 03:36:12 PM »

Here's a good blog post showing the real problems of this idea
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