[7thaccount]

Nothing would be sadder to me to see us stagnate forever. As a non corporeal being, I think you could live nearly forever and learn far more. I think creating "children" could be possible too if we had the technology to digitize people in the first place. I don't think we would give up on exploration either. Just build a ship, send it somewhere, and transport your consiousness over the distance. If you wanted to go back in the physical world, I think you could, or at least a copy of you.

Of course it goes without saying that this is all basically magical sci-fi gibberish.

[pmoriarty]

"I think you could live nearly forever and learn far more."

But it wouldn't be you living forever. It would be some copy of you (at best).

[edgyquant]

What’s the difference?

[TheRealNGenius]

that one can't discern the difference, yet would undergo this procedure themselves, is telling in and of itself

[7thaccount]

Can you elaborate? I think sharding yourself (breaking yourself into clones, not pooping on yourself) would be pretty interesting. A lot of problems could be worked on simultaneously. There are of course philosophical implications. I think it is fine as long as it isn't forced.

[ncmncm]

Would your shards have rights to spend your money?

[edgyquant]

Only if I created them myself