Since "consciousness" is, to put it mildly, an extremely poorly understood phenomenon yet (we're not even entirely sure there is , strictly speaking, anything to actually understand about it) I'd suppose that any technology for its transfer, if possible at all, is quite far into the future.Agreed, it would obviously be two different people. Without a "consciousness transfer" technology, there's no way it can be the same person or even something close to that.
Since "consciousness" is, to put it mildly, an extremely poorly understood phenomenon yet (we're not even entirely sure there is , strictly speaking, anything to actually understand about it) I'd suppose that any technology for its transfer, if possible at all, is quite far into the future.
While cloning, even if far-fetched can be somehow be done, the ability to ''transfer consciousness'' is so far into the future that it is ASB for now. as Falecius said, perhaps there is no consciousness.
The inside of the mind, is one of the areas we have very little information about. What motivates a man, is it simple chemicals, or perhaps there a system to regulate thinking, both input & feedback. If so, if one copies this system, it is not the original. It could branched-off into a different person.
What if international media finds a dictator like Kim Jung Un, Gadaffi, Saddam Hussein, or similar used some of the first human cloning techniques to create a new body in the hopes of transferring consciousness before death? What is global reaction?
I think I’ve very much had this experience!My religion class in elementary school consisted largely of the middle-aged teacher babbling on about whatever topic came into his head that day, and one lesson he got into cloning, and about how it's something very evil dictators might undertake, giving Idi Amin as his example. A few weeks later, trying to sound smart, I mentioned this to my uncle, and was somewhat crestfallen when he suggested that the idea of Idi Amin cloning himself was ridiculous.