There is a very old idea about teleportation that if one is to teleport from a
place to another, they will die and a new person with their identical body and
mind will be constructed. And then the question is: "Is this new person that old
person?". What about the dead person? and so on.
My fascination with the problem now, is thinking about memory. Each night before
I sleep, I say these words on repeat: "I don't want to sleep". This is how I
force myself into sleep and it work every time. When I wake up the next morning,
I have no recollection of what happens next.
To me, this is much like the teleportation matter. I have no idea what I had
thought about during the night; it is as if I died and woke up a new person.
Even if I had; does it really matter? Maybe we are like the LLMs. We have a RAG
system on us as the memory and then every morning a new instance is loaded. If
anything, that would be interesting.
I honestly had the worst of thoughts when it came to the matters of