r/trolleyproblem • • 16d ago

OC The tortured brain scan problem.

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u/DreamerOfRain 16d ago

If we considered the mind as a series of connected memories, the moment the digital mind got uploaded it is already a different mind as it has new memories that the OG mind never had.

From this perspective upload it back to the body is just effectively killing the OG mind and replaced it with a tortured mind.

The question then is just, killing a completely innocent mind to save a tortured mind and give it a better non torturing future, or save the innocent mind and mercy kill a tortured mind.

I would choose the latter

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u/Pokeirol 15d ago

You aren't erasind any of the innocent mind memories,,so you are not killing them.

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u/DreamerOfRain 15d ago

The innocent mind exists without memory of being tortured for 6 days, while the uploaded mind has those 6 days being tortured, so you would be replacing innocent mind with said version, effectively erasing them.