If any of our cells or even atoms can be replaced one at a time while still remaining ourselves, then we really are not those things -but a unique pattern/system/design made from such things.
The same would be true for any portion of what makes up our memories, personality, etc. We are not any individual component -or even a collection of specific components. We are actually the pattern/design/system.
If all components were replaced at the same instant, it would be no different.
If our pattern was perfectly recorded at a specific point -and the data was used to make an exact duplicate ...say a thousand years later ...there would still be no difference.
If you wrote "yourself" a note now for the exact duplicate later -explaining that the duplicate was made of no original components, it would not matter, as the duplicate would think, feel and remember exactly as you do because the pattern of the components -matter, energy, whatever -was exact. There would simply be a period of inactivity before you were set in motion again from the record of the previous state.
It would not make us any less special, unique, etc. -or our origin any less holy or divine, if you will, as such things are in the capability, complexity and artistry.
It may sound simple, but it is still very far beyond us -to day the least -and we are not in a position to do it for ourselves.
It would technicaly mean that any number of exact duplicates could be produced, but -as uniqueness is one of the most wonderful things about us (especially as we grow to be more unique as persons) -it would not be logical to do so.
Even so, identical twins are essentially a similar thing at an earlier stage -before experience -and grow as unique individuals from that point
Unsettling, perhaps -but not illogical.
Edited by
Unknow
on Wed 01/27/21 10:49 PM