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[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I never got that. I mean, I got what they were going for, but the realist in me always sees what goes into a "digital afterlife" as being a copy with no continuity of consciousness. The copy could still miss her husband, though, and I wasn't even thinking about that TBH.

I guess the way I saw it was that "If there is an afterlife, that wouldn't have been 'her' in the machine and she'd have been able to have both.".

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

exactly, total SOMA situation.

I don't think anyone will ever be able to convince me of 'transferrance' of the mind/soul through digital means. it's copying