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Chappie didn't exactly solve consciousness

posted 10 years ago by wookiebyron
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He merely found a way to copy it somewhere else, not move it. The last scene with the mommy backup flash drive is proof of this. She gets restored to when the backup was created which was putting on the helmet she is not aware of anything that happened afterwards.

Same thing with Deon and Chappie at the factory, they copy their memories and the configuration of their minds to another storage medium. They just both happened to die at that exact moment making it convenient. Deon thinks Chappie saved him but he really did die, his "image" just continues on in another body.

So you could be on your death bed, put your consciousness in an exact clone of you. The clone celebrates and thinks "it worked" and you will be forced to watch as this imposter takes everything and everyone you love as you continue to slowly die. Scary stuff.

[–] sol_badguy 9 years ago

It's all rather obvious, yet you talk like you've made some big discovery...
I recommend you watching "The 6th Day" movie - the thing you're talking about is well shown there.

[–] king_of_bob 9 years ago

The point, that you missed, is that our consciousness and ultimately who we are, is a product of our memories.

So you could be on your death bed, put your consciousness in an exact clone of you. The clone celebrates and thinks "it worked" and you will be forced to watch as this imposter takes everything and everyone you love as you continue to slowly die. Scary stuff.

When you look at it that way, sure. If however, you choose to look at it as some form of you will continue to exist and affect the world after your physical death, far less scary.

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[–] terryperring104 9 years ago

I've thought this before-when it comes to teleportation devices. Its like a 'sharing' out, or division of the original consciousness; where 1 becomes 2.
But the original perishes....

[–] watergaia 9 years ago

He may or may not have "solved consciouness". We never see conscoiusness being transferred from a person who is alive, so we don't know if they would die or what would happen.

It may be that her consciousness would get transferred, but just that she would be missing some of the memories after chappie made the copy. She would still be she, she would just be missing some memories.

Sometimes people confuse memories and experiences with conscoiusness, and they aren't the same thing. For example, you can lose your memory, but you can still be you/conscious.

[–] watergaia 9 years ago

Now that I think about it, Chappie did move his consciousness while his body was still alive, so it seems like he did "solve conscoiusness"; he moved his consciousness. He didn't just copy it.