[ExI] Uploads are self

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 22/03/2026 11:33, Jason Resch wrote:
> Consider the case where you upload your mind to 5 different computers at once.
>
> Subject each of the 5 instances to gradual modifications (via different experiences) so that you end up in the end with 5 very distinct persons with different memories and even personalities.
>
> Have you have become these 5 different people?


Of course.
What other possibility is there?


> If so what principle makes them them all you (when they're run on different computers and have different psychologies)?


I'm not sure what you mean by 'what principle'. Each one of them is an upload of you, that has changed in some way. Each one is no different to if you had remained biological and made the same changes (assuming the suggested changes are possible in a biological person).

Are you having difficulty with the 'branching identity' idea (do you not think that there can be 5 'you's), or is it something else?

-- 
Ben