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Tasoth posted:So how does Eclipse Phase deal with the immortal people and the fact that in their dying moments they get to realize that they're still going to die? That's always one of the things that I thought was funny about transhumanists. They're all for uploading their minds into machines to beat death, but they don't realize they themselves are still going to die but now with the knowledge of a replica of them living on. But I'm kind of missing the point of EP with this rant. Self is a complicated concept(or a nonsensical one.) If you get amnesia are you still you? If your brain stops and then starts back up are you still you? You're gonna have to pick one of those to make a consistent theory of self and both have massive and strange conclusions. The idenitity theory of self leads one to not worry about continuity, that's the usual one with uploading and resleeving. (and eclipse phase has a great big selection pressure on people not ok with that one, those people ~died~.) The continuity theory is less explored in it's ramifications, but is going to be even stranger since in that promotes massive neural editing.
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