Quantum Computers Will Change Everything (Michio Kaku)
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Immortality of the Self
A digital copy of you is just that. It's just a copy. You're not experiencing anything. You're gone. A quantum copy would be more or less identical to you. The memories, the personality quirks, the figures of speech, they would all be identical to you and you would exist in parallel universes. But we cannot freely move between these universes because we're very big. We consist of what 10 to the 26 atoms approximately. That's a lot of electrons. And so we cannot freely moved between these universes, like in the Hollywood movies, which went all the Oscars this year. However, theoretically, theoretically, it's possible. At the atomic level, electrons do it all
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