Viliam_Bur comments on Dissolving the Thread of Personal Identity - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Skeptityke 25 May 2014 06:36AM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 25 May 2014 08:07:39PM 2 points [-]

Personal identity = changing slowly, so it doesn't feel like disapearing.

Comment author: TylerJay 27 May 2014 12:58:22AM 0 points [-]

I think there's something to this. I much prefer the idea (i think Kurzweil's?) of a gradual upload that preserves continuity of experience to being scanned, copied, and then having my physical body killed. The latter would feel like death.