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The more you try to fix an old problem, the more new problems will arise, and the new problems will often be more serious than the old ones.

In this era, with the advancement of medical technology, there are not a few people who are over 130 years old and still in good health, and it is normal for the fifth or even sixth generation of a family to live together. A person like Lu Ze, who has been dormant for a hundred years and has no relatives and no reason is almost non-existent in this era.

And in this era, there is no longer a concept of money.

As the saying goes, money is the root of all evil, and in the past, people would become hypocritical because of money, and it was not uncommon for former friends to become enemies because of money. And when material abundance is great and money disappears from human civilization, the feelings between people become more pure.

Thousands of years ago, the ancients had the illusion that "people do not have only their relatives, and they do not have only children" in the Datong society, but this era has become a reality.

This was supposed to be a good thing, but when neural upload technology came along, such a good thing immediately turned into a problem.

Although there is no dispute between two consciousnesses over the ownership of property, on the other hand, the closer the relationship between people, the greater the value to him of the emotional ownership of all his relatives and friends, and the more reluctant he is to share it with others, even if that person is his second consciousness. At the same time, for the uploader's relatives and friends, they are also reluctant to divide their feelings for the uploader in two.

Therefore, this ethical problem due to the identity of the two consciousnesses, although not the biggest and most serious problem caused by neural upload technology, is definitely the most troublesome and controversial issue.

Faced with Yang Hai's questions one after another, the virtual personality No. 9 was no longer entangled in tinkering with his set of inheritance rules, but asked Yang Hai rhetorically: "The problems you just said can't be completely solved even by you." If the second consciousness is allowed to have a new identity, there will be a problem of identity inheritance, and if we stipulate that the second consciousness has the same identity as himself from the beginning, and this inheritance process is missing, what if the uploader is unwilling to commit suicide? It's impossible for us to deprive the first consciousness of our identity or kill him, right? ”

Yang Haidao: "I'm not against what you said about the idea of identity inheritance, but I think you care too much about the problem of identity, in fact, in my opinion, the identity problem caused by neural upload cannot be completely solved." Human civilization has developed for thousands of years from ancient times to the present, and what time has the ideological and social progress been smooth sailing? Even if it was the original 'Heavenless Revolution', although everything was going well at the time, didn't there be so much chaos in the first Star Spirit Network Conference later? So I think we should still set a small goal that can be achieved first, as I said before, and find a way to minimize the negative impact of neural transmission on human civilization, rather than coming up with a solution to all problems once and for all. ”

At this time, the virtual personality No. 10 suddenly sighed: "Alas, it's really better to use the replacement method to upload nerves from the beginning, at least there won't be such a troublesome problem." ”

Yang Haidao: "It is everyone's right to obtain immortality through neural uploading, and it is his freedom to choose suicide, but if it is stipulated from the beginning that suicide must be committed in order to carry out neural uploading, then the nature will completely change, so this is absolutely not possible!" And if a person is willing to accept the substitution method after understanding the meaning of neural uploading, he is also willing to accept suicide immediately after the scan is uploaded, so the upload method itself is not the source of these problems. So now let me summarize the problems that have arisen, and according to the previous discussion, there are three possible situations for the relationship between the two consciousnesses of the uploader:

In the first case, the uploader chooses to commit suicide, and at the same time, the second consciousness is willing to inherit the identity;

In the second case, the uploader chooses to commit suicide, and the second consciousness is unwilling to inherit the identity;

In the third case, the uploader does not commit suicide.

For the first case, there is naturally nothing wrong with it, so we can consider this suicide to be legal, and the suicide management committee allows suicide.

In the second case, as you said before, it can be seen that the person's original identity has died, and the second consciousness will live with a new identity. Then this kind of suicide will lead to the death of the person represented by the uploader's original identity, and will cause the pain of the uploader's original relatives and friends, so this kind of suicide is not legal, and the suicide management committee does not allow this kind of suicide. If that person commits suicide without permission, considering that the two consciousnesses are the same person, it is very likely that he deliberately wanted to abandon his past identity in this way and live with a new identity, so although we cannot force the second consciousness to inherit the identity, we must convict him of intentional homicide. I think this should be acceptable to everyone, right? ”

Avatar Nine: "This treatment is reasonable. When a person makes the decision to cut ties with all his relatives and friends, he is already dead in the past, and he himself has killed himself! ”

Virtual Personality No. 10: "But he only committed suicide, and his second consciousness did not do anything, so is the sentence of intentional homicide too serious?" ”

Yang Haidao: "But this was planned by him at the beginning, from the perspective of his relatives and friends, isn't it the new identity of the second consciousness that killed the first consciousness?" In fact, the so-called 'intentional homicide' is just a crime, it doesn't matter at all, what matters is how we punish him. ”

Avatar Ten: "Okay, you have a point, but what kind of punishment should we use for a consciousness uploaded to a computer?" ”

Yang Haidao: "You might as well put this issue aside for now, and then discuss it." Now let's talk about the third case, that is, the uploader does not commit suicide, and the two consciousnesses exist at the same time. I don't think it's possible to find a perfect solution to the identity problem caused by the third situation, but in the final analysis, the identity problem is just a psychological barrier for people, and they can't accept that their relatives and friends are suddenly split in two, so we can let the two consciousnesses of the uploader find a solution for themselves. ”

Virtual Personality No. 2: "But there is one more thing to consider, that is, over time, the two consciousnesses will experience different people and things, and it will not be long before they become completely different people, and what kind of relationship will they have at this time?" If the first consciousness has experienced a relationship during this time and is married to a person, and the second consciousness has not experienced all this, then if the first consciousness dies unexpectedly, it is obviously unreasonable to let the second consciousness take the role of husband in his place. ”

Yang Haidao: "Yes, so I think that the second consciousness should completely follow the principle of voluntariness in the inheritance of the affection of the uploader's relatives or friends, but it should give priority to satisfying the wishes of others.

First, the uploader's first consciousness has the ownership of all his relatives and friends for his emotions before uploading, and the second consciousness has no ownership but has the right to inherit.

Second, when both parties agree, and the relative or friend is willing to accept it, the first consciousness can share the relationship that the relative or friend has with the second consciousness.

3. If the first consciousness dies, the second consciousness agrees, and the relative or friend is willing to accept it, the second consciousness inherits the relationship with the relative or friend that the first consciousness has. ”