wizard comments on Open thread, Nov. 16 - Nov. 22, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wizard 22 November 2015 02:00:10AM 1 point [-]

My understanding is that LWers do not believe in a permanent consciousness.

A teleporter makes a clone of you with identical brain patterns: did it get a new consciousness, how do you tell your consciousness didn't go to the clone, where does the consciousness lies, is it real, etc.
It's not real, therefore the clone is literally you.

Either that or we're dying every second.