XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.paranormal, soc.history   
   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/4/25 5:18 AM, x wrote:   
      
   > Is something like 'life insurance' a bad idea?  Who really knows.   
      
   I don't see it as life insurance.   
      
   Even if it was an exact duplicate of your mind, inside of a computer,   
   starting the moment it was copied it would follow a unique existence.   
   A year later, assuming the computer copy had yet to go completely   
   insane from the ordeal, it would no nothing but life inside of a   
   computer. It's perspective would be alien to you.   
      
   Food would be important to the real you. Air conditioning in the   
   heat, a warm fire in the cold of winter... sex?   
      
   A comfortable bed?   
      
   Even the relief of taking a piss!   
      
   None of these would exist for the copy of you. Life, what it means,   
   what is important would be all different.   
      
      
      
      
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