u/FirefighterSecret606

Some people claim that mind uploading wouldn’t work because there would be no continuity of consciousness between the original person and the copy. In that context, most people readily agree.

However, continuity of consciousness itself is not something you can ever be completely certain of, even in ordinary life. You do not retain a complete memory of every moment you have experienced; there are countless gaps. How do you know your consciousness has continued without interruption? What if continuity was broken at some point? What if your consciousness had been replaced or switched many times without you ever realizing it?

Does continuity of consciousness really matter?

Consciousness is inherently first-person, private, and subjective, whereas language is public, shared, and rule-based.

Because language operates in this objective, shared space, any attempt to describe consciousness tends to translate it into more physicalist or objectified terms.

The act of thinking or speaking about subjective experience reshapes it into something communicable, but in doing so strips away its subjective aspects.

Consciousness can be directly experienced, but it cannot be fully communicated to others; articulation inevitably leaves part of its subjectivity behind.