AI Researchers Clash on X: Can a Mind Upload Still Be 'You'?
ZyMazza · x · 2026-09-24
A running X thread on mind uploading and personal identity: asked whether consciousness is just 'a pattern in flux', Yacine affirms it and argues a mind upload can instantiate the same 'me', rejecting any special further fact about identity beyond functional and physical properties.
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