• 4lan@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    You have to make a lot of assumptions for any of that to be true.

    Your consciousness is the sum of electrical signals and stored data. The same way that if you throw a computer into a fire the data is gone forever.

    The energy in your body is what continues on forever, not the data.
    There is no law of conservation of data. That is not a thing

    I see a large trend of people just completely rejecting reality for fantasies. I would love it if my consciousness continued on forever, but that is not the truth. There is zero evidence of this. When you dye your body will rot and the energy will be returned to the earth. I think that is more beautiful

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      12 days ago

      There is no glory or beauty in Oblivion, what you describe is not a fade to black, but a fade to invisible.

      Additionally your idea assumes that what makes me think and feel is the accumulation of data by itself.

      No matter how smart a computer gets, it’s not going to start thinking for itself. The rise of AI Hallucination has proved that.

      General AI will not be found until we can see the human soul in a microscope.

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        The human soul cannot be measured even in a human body… So why do you think it exists? You sound like someone who completely rejects science in favor of fairy tales that make them more able to go to sleep at night.

        Reality is harsh and cruel. Your ‘soul’ is just your consciousness, it disappears the second there is no energy to keep your brain alive. The second you die you are gone forever, the only thing that remains is your memory until those people die. Nature does not care about you, you have the same worth as a cockroach.

        All of these religious fairy tales are there to exploit your fear of death. They give you a fairy tale saying that death isn’t the end so you feel better about life. All you have to do is follow their rules 😂