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An open question
Self
Would the upload be you?
If an upload were offered — your brain scanned, your body destroyed, a functionally identical you running in silicon, and every test said it was you — would you step through?
A perfect psychological copy tests whether identity depends on pattern, continuity, or the body.
The live positions
Starting shores, not a quiz — the question stays open.
- 1Yes — identity is the pattern; the copy is me.
- 2No — identity is this body and its continuous history.
- 3The offer is a category error; I'd refuse to answer on its terms.
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