[TekMol]

Are you married?

Say a new technology comes up that lets me clone your wife. Perfectly. Down to the last atom.

Would you then be ok with your wife being destroyed and replaced by the copy?

If you are not ok with that - aren't you just as irrational as the people who buy NFTs?

[npteljes]

I don't see how this particular irrationality is comparable to the irrationality surrounding NFTs.

To tweak the analogy to NFTs a bit better. Let's say that the fact of the marriage is recorded in a registry, and that the registry is trusted as canonical by the larger entity which people trust, like, the government. Now let's say that the registry is copied word to word, certified to be legal, and then the original destroyed. Surely that doesn't affect the marriage itself, the deep personal bond between the two people?

[cr1895]

That's an absurd hypothetical. A human being isn't an object...do you also mirror their consciousness?

[TekMol]

An NFT is also not an object.

Regarding consciousness - do you think consciousness is not made of atoms? What is it made of?