Not necessarily. If one believes in "being" as in the concept of Dasien as illustrated by Martin Heidegger (one of the few things he got right) which is only aware of the present, and concept of the past is just an illusion of memories (as it relates to the being, not saying there is no past), then the "self" which is uploaded into the machine will only be self-aware of the present and the self of the past will disappear in time just as it always happens.
To clarify, the self which is self-aware dies at every moment and only lives within the present, and it would be a misunderstanding to ask what would happen to the old self ones it is transfered to a machine, since the self, being as Dasien, only lives in the present and dies when moved to the past and is only partially saved through memories.
If one is merely coping the data to a machine one would merely be splitting the self into to parallel streams of consciousness and then each would have to develop there own new identities based on their new experiences and environments.
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Not necessarily. If one believes in "being" as in the concept of Dasien as illustrated by Martin Heidegger (one of the few things he got right) which is only aware of the present, and concept of the past is just an illusion of memories (as it relates to the being, not saying there is no past), then the "self" which is uploaded into the machine will only be self-aware of the present and the self of the past will disappear in time just as it always happens. To clarify, the self which is self-aware dies at every moment and only lives within the present, and it would be a misunderstanding to ask what would happen to the old self ones it is transfered to a machine, since the self, being as Dasien, only lives in the present and dies when moved to the past and is only partially saved through memories. If one is merely coping the data to a machine one would merely be splitting the self into to parallel streams of consciousness and then each would have to develop there own new identities based on their new experiences and environments.