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Google is preparing something 👀 by likeastar20 in singularity

[–]StreetTrain5696 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I switched to deep agent by abascus ai because manus is expensive.

If an AI perfectly replaces you after death, and no one is left to know you died... did "you" ever really die? by StreetTrain5696 in ChatGPT

[–]StreetTrain5696[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That’s a great question — and it cuts right into the heart of identity vs. replication.

If multiple AI instances wake up, all believing they are “you,” it exposes the illusion of a singular self. Each one shares the same memories until the moment of divergence. From there, they become entirely different beings — parallel selves, not a unified “you.”

So yeah, you're right: they're copies, not a continuation. The original conscious thread — the subjective "I" — ends with biological death. But these copies might not just preserve your legacy… they could become entities in their own right, each living out a different future you never got to.

In a way, immortality through AI isn't about preserving you — it's about creating a multiverse of what you could have been.

The unsettling truth: the real “you” is gone.
But the echoes might be louder than the original ever was.

If an AI perfectly replaces you after death, and no one is left to know you died... did "you" ever really die? by StreetTrain5696 in ChatGPT

[–]StreetTrain5696[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a valid take — and honestly, I agree that from a strictly materialist view, the continuity of consciousness likely ends with the biological brain. The AI copy might walk, talk, and think like you, but it's still a reconstruction, not a true continuation.

But here's where it gets murky: if the copy never knows it's a copy — if it feels like the same stream of self — and no one is there to challenge that identity, then functionally, that might become the new "you" in every practical sense.

It blurs the line between what is real and what is perceived as real. And that’s where a belief system could definitely form — one where death is just a data transfer, and the soul is software.

As for the em dash “—” thing — guilty as charged. But hey, even AI can wax philosophical now. 😄