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0 pointsalbertgoeswoof5y ago0 comments

Honestly I can’t understand this perspective, despite having come from a religious background and heard it many times.

When you turn your computer off the RAM is erased, the state is lost. Our brains are running on RAM.

Perhaps we have persistent, non-volatile storage too, but we have no way to access and continue running our conscious, outside of our brain.

There’s nothing to fear about that- it is the world we’ve always lived in, and the state after your brain stops processing is no different from the state of the universe before you were born.

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867-53095y ago

the difference is that computers are manmade, they do not have a consciousness to wonder where they came from. we know how RAM works and that it was designed to forget. the bits that once flowed through them had a predefined source and destination. when they were volatile they were electronic in nature, but once discarded reduced to atoms and heat as exhaust

I agree there is currently no known way to transfer the state of a human brain, like there was no concept of RAM back when religions were started

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