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Waste of processing power. Having dozens of focuses of attention and corresponding body/brain construction is more efficient.
Because basic functions are being repeated?
I rather say higher level functions is excessively redundant. Then there are coordination problems, competition for shared resources (e.g. money, sexual partner), possibly divergence of near- and far-term goals, relatively low in-group communication speed, possibly less number of cross-domain-of-knowledge insights.
Surely you jest.
TVTropes warning.
What's the difference between a copy of yourself and an extra "body/brain construction"?
I think red75 meant rebuilding yourself into a more "multi-threaded" being. I'm not sure I would want to go in that direction, though - it's hard to imagine what the result would feel like, it probably couldn't even be called conscious in the human sense, but somehow multiply-conscious...
Yes, something like that. But I don't think that consciousness of such being will be dramatically different, because it still should contain "central executive" that still coordinates overall behavior of that being and still controls direction and distribution of attention that is however much more fine-grained than human's one.