tetris11@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-29 months agoIf you could split yourself into a copy of yourself, how many copies would you make to satisfy all your wishes?message-squaremessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up1161arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1156arrow-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-29 months agomessage-square223fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 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-squarePotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 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.