The duplicates paradox
Here is a very fascinating paradox, I often think of it. Let us assume that we can make an exact duplicate of you. I know how this is completely impossible, but let us use our imagination and say this is in the far future. If you were to die, and later a duplicate of you were to be created would this duplicate be you? Here is why I think it is fascinating, a lot of materialist will say it is not. But when asked to give a reason why it is not them they can not give a good reason.
Now let us add another factor. If by mistake you were still alive and a duplicate of you were to be made, then which would be the real you?
Honestly now, does this not throw you into complete confusion, take a few seconds and think about it. If they are not both you, then what is it that separates you from the duplicate.
Would you be willing to kill yourself to be duplicated at a later time? Why or why not?
Update:Logically, if the duplicate had nearly the exact same arrangement of cells as you do then it would be in essence you.. Unless there is something that makes all of us unique outside of the physical arrangement of cells.
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They would share different experiences. Experiences shape who we are and how we react to different situations. Identical twins are a expample. They can turn out completly different. Because of different experiences in their life. (thats just one factor). So, even if you shared the EXACT same cells in your body with another being, you would be different. And another thing, You are MORE than your body. Your body is just a VEICHLE for the REAL you (soul) to express itself....theBerean
Reason would compel you to accept that at the instant of duplication, there would be two of you, but from that point on you would inevitably diverge - like two alternative possible futures. You are not the same person you were 5 minutes ago anyway - You may not even have a single atom in your body that you had when you were (say) 5 years old. 'You' is a very subjective concept.
That would be cloning, and soon in the near future, we will have the ability to clone ourselves, or in your words, create duplicates of ourselves.
As for dying and the clone (duplicate) living on, it would be an entirely different person, because even if it shares your personality and life style, it is still an individual being and capable of living a life different to the one you lived.
By rights, even just just in a different city to your own and different friends would make it be a different person, and not yourself, because you personally don't live the same life the clone (duplicate) is living.
There is no way to duplicate someone, either now or in the future. We are more than an arrangement of cells. If we weren't, then identical twins would be exactly the same in all ways and they are not. The identical twins I've known are very easy to tell apart, despite coming from the same egg. I also believe that we are sent from God, so our souls make us who we are, not just our cells.
May God Bless you.
The reproduction would not be you because of the fact it fairly is in a diverse region. you are the place you're, the reproduction isn't. this could be a great secret because of the fact straightforward experience tells us each and every little thing we predict of and experience could come from our recommendations circuits on my own. in spite of the undeniable fact that, it additionally comes from our region too, because of the fact the Duplicates Paradox shows. place could be a non-fabric area of understanding. perhaps "self" is fullyyt non-fabric and follows the physique. something very unusual is going on.
Oh just watch 6 Days by Arnold Shwatzanegger.