• CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Except, in your final statement that’s kinda false? The “Anima” is just the electrical signals of the meat suit. That’s it, that’s the “you”. There is 0 evidence that’s ever been produced of any kind that there is any existence of a soul or spirit beyond “trust me bro.”

    In this case you have 2 exact copies of “you” and milliseconds later those two copies diverge as new neurons are formed. As soon as they start forming their own experience at that point each one is different, their own “me” (from their points of view). No need to make up some higher level of meaning such as a soul.

    We are all just brains riding around in an electrical meat suit, listening to chemical signals from the bacteria in our guts and some how finding meaning and purpose in an uncaring universe. That’s a helluva a lot more amazing and meaningful then a cosmic space daddy giving us “us”

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      7 hours ago

      I’ve been trying to be faith-agnostic about it, as in the signals in your brain, some weird angel possession a meat mech, whatever. There is a clear phenomena where ‘you’ come into existance and get to look through your eyes. ‘You’ get to experience the world through these signals, and the full explanation of how that becomes a first person perspective observing the world is still not cleanly explained. That’s the anima, the soul, ‘you’.

      Teleportation both, destroys your body completely and so when the copy gets made on the other side it’s not going to be the same you even if you use all the same atoms, and only interacts with the physical world so no spiritual soul would be brought along with it.

      Basically, you will go into the teleporter, they’ll fire it up, and then you’ll stop being able to see, think, feel, or do anything relating to existence because you stopped existing. A new anima will be created when the copy of your physiology is constructed on the other end. ‘You’ never come back.

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      16 hours ago

      You say there is zero evidence, but there are, just use introspection, you are you. Cogito ergo sum.

      Make 2 “copies” it’s obvioys they aren not both you. Maybe neither.

      I’ll walk 😁

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        16 hours ago

        Cogito ergo sum. Latin for the internal “trust me bro”

        They are each themselves perfectly “you” until the first neuron forms independently.

        There isn’t some nebulous soul they are sharing, no “I have a soul and those two don’t”.

        They are all the same “Chemical impulse”machines until their split experience causes different neurons to form.