>there's no coin toss
lol what a liar right bros??
There's no coin toss
William Jones
Jordan Ward
You could consider it to have a coin toss if you conceptualize the idea of a string of consciousness abstractly and consider the copy to be completely identical to the original, in the sense that both are carrying on the same string of consciousness. If you think of things literally and in a purely physical sense, you just have one line of consciousness and then a second new one starting up. But if you're considering the line of thoughts to be of more value than the physicality then it is a coin flip of which of the two equally valid continuations of that line of thought is "you".
Nicholas Brown
embrace the WAU. it would have fixed its fuck-ups eventually.
Ethan Rivera
Its unclear because the game is unreliable in the way it tells the story. You start as Original Simon, switch to Copy 1, then to Copy 2 and finally stay as Copy 2 except for the end where you briefly stay as Copy 3. You never follow "One Simon."
Alexander Taylor
It's kind of like the idea that we are a completely different person every 7 years as our cells are replaced.
Robert Diaz
yeah, it's a bit unreliable. In the strictest sense, you're playing through your memories, but that's not how memory works so it's more like a series of discrete chapters with different protagonists.
Adam Martinez
Though that is deprecated considering neural tissue has a far slower rate of replacement.
Anthony Morales
But it's still the same, isn't it? What constitutes you is being replaced. Is the end product still you?
Hunter Sanchez
Take your ship of Theseus and shove it.
There is a vast difference between slowly being replaced in part and a flash cloning of consciousness.