Right now I can remember the faces of some people I saw at the gym yesterday. Can that memory be reconstructed from my online footprint and from memories of my friends and family? I don’t think so. Or are you saying this memory is unimportant to my identity and can be replaced with another similar one? In that case I’d like to understand better what’s considered important enough or similar enough.
It seems unlikely that the memory can be reconstructed (although it could be recreated, if the AI happens to know who-all was at the gym that day). Your perspective makes sense to me but for my part I don’t think that kind of detail is important to me; it’s okay if I wake up missing a lot of minor episodic memories like that.
Right now I can remember the faces of some people I saw at the gym yesterday. Can that memory be reconstructed from my online footprint and from memories of my friends and family? I don’t think so. Or are you saying this memory is unimportant to my identity and can be replaced with another similar one? In that case I’d like to understand better what’s considered important enough or similar enough.
It seems unlikely that the memory can be reconstructed (although it could be recreated, if the AI happens to know who-all was at the gym that day). Your perspective makes sense to me but for my part I don’t think that kind of detail is important to me; it’s okay if I wake up missing a lot of minor episodic memories like that.