Theory of mind - on the computer. a bit funny (or not)
This discussion is sorta freaky, in that as a 44 year old, i think about what "existence" means more and more. And here you are talking making clones of brains which upon activation are actually "live" in a very real sense, and whic can be turned off with a blink. Tanya on, Tanya off - with no trace of awareness that you were ever 'on'.
It's that simple. And that very ego bashing (pouts). Sometimes i hate being an atheist. ;-)
Why? It's pretty great as long as your death is quick and painless. As Mark Twain (allegedly) said: "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." (I'm sure he never really said most of the things he said, though.)
No, I don't particular fear death either. Though I can think of numerous processes that move us from the one case of affairs to the other case of affairs that I am very much shit scared of.
It's an ego thing, not a fear thing. The fact that you will not exist, adn there's no you to even know existed. it's freaky.
But there'd be no you to give a fuck. :p
of course there wouldn't, and that's what annoying. Non existence is a bitch, man. I want to exist!
Fear isn't about what you will really experience, it's about how you feel in the now, about who you are, and where you will be, duh. ;-)