Research Questions
Self
What makes you the same person over time.
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Research Questions
Self
What makes you the same person over time.
11 questions
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Have you ever felt more like yourself in a costume, an avatar or a role?An avatar, costume, or object can reshape how you move and how others respond to you.
- The apology you never madeIf an AI copy of you apologized for something you never said, would you stand by it?
- The bundle that calls itself ILook for the part of you that watches your thoughts. If you cannot catch it, was it ever there?
- What did school teach you to be that you're still unlearning?Being shaped by a system need not mean it ever understood the person it was shaping.
- What do you owe the child you used to be?Your body, your memories and your values have all changed since then. Some of that child's hopes are still waiting on you.
- What do you want only because someone you loved wanted it first?A desire need not have originated with you to become part of the life you choose.
- What flaw would you refuse to have fixed?What looks like damage from the outside may be carrying part of a person's identity.
- What makes you you?A perfect copy of you could wake up tomorrow with your memories, your habits and your love for your people, certain that it is you.
- When did someone last tell you what you were feeling, and get it wrong?Confidence about another person's mind can exceed the evidence available to an observer.
- Would the upload be you?Your brain is scanned, your body destroyed, and a perfect copy of you wakes up in a computer. Would you go through with it?Pick one of 3
- Would you want to remember everything?Forgetting can feel like a loss of truth or a condition of becoming someone new.Pick one of 4
