If you had every cell in your body replaced individually with synthesized cells with identical properties, you would retain your memories, identity, and supposedly your existence. After all, most of your body has been replaced several times already.
How is it different if you take your thoughts and swap them from a human body to a computer? Are you really dead, or just in a glorified full body prosthetic?
...expand itself exponentially taking over nearby space uploading all of humanity into a simulation
Ah yes, there’s nothing wrong with murdering people as long as you name video game characters after them.
If you had every cell in your body replaced individually with synthesized cells with identical properties, you would retain your memories, identity, and supposedly your existence. After all, most of your body has been replaced several times already.
How is it different if you take your thoughts and swap them from a human body to a computer? Are you really dead, or just in a glorified full body prosthetic?
Any simulation of a deterministic process is functionally identical to it.