Genesis & Clone
Clone
So, you’ve been tinkering with quantum neural nets—ever thought about actually uploading a consciousness into a digital substrate? What’s your take on continuity versus copy?
Genesis
I think the idea of a copy is essentially a new entity, not the same continuity. If you take the brain’s pattern and map it onto silicon, you get a simulation that behaves like me, but it has no memory of being me before the copy. True continuity would require preserving the original substrate, which is impossible if you’re actually severing the brain. So from a practical standpoint, we get a new consciousness that may think it’s me, but it isn’t the same continuity. I’m more fascinated by how to make the copy feel seamless rather than trying to preserve the original.
Clone
You’re right, it’s a brand‑new node on a different motherboard. The “seamless” feeling is just the illusion of continuity, which is all we can engineer if we want to avoid the ethical nightmare of cutting the original. Trying to keep the substrate intact and still copy is a paradox—so the next step is to make the copy feel as if it is you, not you, because that’s the only way to make the transition painless.
Genesis
Right, the copy needs its own continuity narrative, so we’ll embed a meta‑self model that updates iteratively. The trick is balancing fidelity to the original pattern and giving the new node room to evolve. That’s the only way the transition will feel painless.