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Leonhart comments on Continuity in Uploading - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Leonhart 19 January 2014 01:47:38PM *  1 point [-]

Uploaded-me will remember incorrectly anticipating the same, but uploaded-me was not the one doing the anticipating.

Fine, but we're still talking past each other, because I think there is no sense in which dead meat-you "was" the one doing the anticipating that is not also true of live upload-you.

I am an instance of a class, not the class itself.

So the whole point of this, as I understood it, was that the universe doesn't support persistent instances in the way you want it to.

You could follow e.g. Mitchell Porter (as far as I understood him) and claim that there's a particular quantum doohickey that does support real fundamental continuity of stuff. Do you? Or am I wildly misinterpreting you?