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[Sowelu]

One day you'll wake up inside a computer and wonder if you're the "real" you, or a copy.

I'd be cool with it either way.   

Yeah, me too. Then again, I'd probably be trying to con the other me into doing all my work so I can slack off all day. The other me would be doing the exact same thing.

Awkwardly, it would be the opposite for me.  Trying to con the other me into having fun, because I never get enough time to have fun, because I always have a life that needs living~.  What could I do if I had my whole life to play A Tale in the Desert?  I'm super curious!... but I'm not going to waste MY life on it...

[MaximumZero]

One day you'll wake up inside a computer and wonder if you're the "real" you, or a copy.

I'd be cool with it either way.   

Yeah, me too. Then again, I'd probably be trying to con the other me into doing all my work so I can slack off all day. The other me would be doing the exact same thing.

Awkwardly, it would be the opposite for me.  Trying to con the other me into having fun, because I never get enough time to have fun, because I always have a life that needs living~.  What could I do if I had my whole life to play A Tale in the Desert?  I'm super curious!... but I'm not going to waste MY life on it...

"Here, me, play this game. Seriously, that's all I want you to do."
"Fuck that, man, I'm busy. I gots shit to do."
"Let's call MZ and his clones over! They got nothin' to do!"

[kaenneth]

Oh!  Yeah, all the DigiPen students I've known have been generally well-adjusted and apparently successful.  Nice.

I have no idea if that's sarcasm.

[Sowelu]

Oh!  Yeah, all the DigiPen students I've known have been generally well-adjusted and apparently successful.  Nice.

I have no idea if that's sarcasm.

Oops, I can see how it looks that way...  Nope!  No sarcasm, actually.  All the digipen students I've met seem to be committed to their career path, which I guess is normal if you join a school that's devoted to a specific thing.  I can imagine that it's a pretty good place.

[penguinofhonor]

Reading heartwarming things is always nice.

[kaijyuu]

From what I heard years ago when I went there, the undedicated drop out fast. The guy had a few horror stories about friends and WoW, heh. He also talked to me about Portal years before the game actually came out, while it was still a student project (don't think he was on their team though).

Also if people there are well-adjusted, well, I'll be an exception 

[penguinofhonor]

From some angles, it looks like this emoticon has vampire fangs...

[Trapezohedron]

I feel good this morning, which is unusual.

I tend to feel horrible and depressed when I wake up daily.

Also, DarkerDark's art request thread has given me the happies.

[Bauglir]

One day you'll wake up inside a computer and wonder if you're the "real" you, or a copy.

Is there a difference?

[kaijyuu]

Well that's kinda hard to determine, given the rather mysterious nature of consciousness. If you believe in souls or some variant thereof, then yes, there's almost certainly a difference. If you don't, the difference is due to the differences in hardware (one's in a computer) and the differences in experience (as both of them share the same past up until a split when the copy was made). Hell, some branches of metaphysics would claim the copy is completely and utterly different without necessitating a soul or similar. No simple question to answer.

[SalmonGod]

I think stream of consciousness is key.  If my brain is scanned and then destroyed, but recreated somewhere else (as in a computer simulation), it is only an imitation of me.

[Descan]

Personally I'd rather not risk 'dying', so I'll wait until we can figure out something better than what amounts to a Xerox machine for the brain.




Edit: I agree with the Fish Deity.

[SirAaronIII]

I wouldn't care, as long as I could still play me some vidya games.

[kaijyuu]

But Sir Aaron; you ARE in a video game.

[SalmonGod]

I wouldn't care, as long as I could still play me some vidya games.

Key word here bolded.