Good discussion. My intuition is that if you have a close enough copy that shares the same memories as you, it would feel like it was you (i.e. be you). So say you resurrected people and made it so that they felt like a continuation of their previous selves. Perhaps if (in their original life) they got cancer and died young, they would instead remember being miraculously cured, or something. Even if there were multiple copies, they would all essentially be you (subjectively feel like you), just branched from the original (i.e share a common history).
If there are no shared memories, then effectively it wouldn’t be much different than standard Open Individualism—i.e. you are already everyone, but just not directly experientially aware of the link. The fulfilling of preferences seems somewhat incomplete unless the original people know about it. Like you’d need the simulator somehow letting them know before they die that they will live again, or something (this is starting to sound religious :)).
Also, perhaps an easier route for all this is cryonics :)
Good discussion. My intuition is that if you have a close enough copy that shares the same memories as you, it would feel like it was you (i.e. be you). So say you resurrected people and made it so that they felt like a continuation of their previous selves. Perhaps if (in their original life) they got cancer and died young, they would instead remember being miraculously cured, or something. Even if there were multiple copies, they would all essentially be you (subjectively feel like you), just branched from the original (i.e share a common history).
If there are no shared memories, then effectively it wouldn’t be much different than standard Open Individualism—i.e. you are already everyone, but just not directly experientially aware of the link. The fulfilling of preferences seems somewhat incomplete unless the original people know about it. Like you’d need the simulator somehow letting them know before they die that they will live again, or something (this is starting to sound religious :)).
Also, perhaps an easier route for all this is cryonics :)