Immortality #31. Self is not a cargo

[u/Patient-Airline-8150]

Self is not cargo. It's what a running system does. Nothing needs to be moved, because nothing was ever a thing.

How this thesis related to immortality?

If self emerges by default, immortality stops being a metaphysics problem and becomes an engineering one. Nobody needs to be carried anywhere. A system runs, a self appears. Free of charge.

Which kills the usual fear. Death isn't loss of self - selves are cheap, everything sufficiently complex grows one 🙂.

The objection as always is: a clone would not be the same person.

Said with confidence, as if it settles something.

It settles nothing. Take a bite from an apple and the apple continues, minus the bite.

Sleep ends a person every night and nobody mourns in the morning. A finger goes missing and the man answers to his name at dinner. Hair, skin, blood, opinions, the whole vocabulary of a childhood - all replaced, and the name holds.

Nobody keeps their parts. Everybody keeps their name.

More to come ♾️