Why Do I Believe What I Believe

I was exploring immortality recently - not just extending lifespan like Bryan Johnson, but true immortality. His approach won't save you from accidents or disasters. So what's the alternative?

I started investigating consciousness transfer - moving ourselves into new bodies or machines. This would let us continue after death, work parallely and faster without feeling tired through different bodies and robots. Also derisk our biological and cognitive risks by having multiple backups available and pursue more risk hungry tasks like space missions, disaster management stress free. Basic immortality.

After weeks researching neural encoding, biological host transfer, and brain-to-cloud uploading, I hit a wall: we can copy memories but not consciousness itself.

If I replicate myself to another body, that entity has my memories but thinks independently in real-time. It's a new person. Just like identical twins with the same DNA become different people.

This led me to a different question: what if humans weren't products of single-cell evolution but engineered by another species? What if we were designed to learn, then pass data to new humans through reproduction? What if our inability to transfer consciousness directly was an intentional design constraint?

And that's the key insight: we're all variations of the same template. Different versions of the same core, just running with different data inputs from our unique environments, experiences, and real-time decisions.

If I built robots today that could only replicate by connecting with other robots, and each had the same base programming but gathered their own experiences, in a few centuries they'd develop their own cultures, languages, beliefs - yet fundamentally, they'd all stem from the same code I wrote.

If that's true, every human is just a different version of the same core. The billions of potential "me" copies wouldn't think exactly like me due to their unique circumstances.

So why struggle for individual fame? Why hate other humans? The status-chasing? The ego? If we're all versions of the same foundation, If even one human survives, in a way, we all do.

This insight drives everything I do. There's no logical reason to prioritize my version over yours if we're fundamentally the same system. It's not about personal legacy - it's about advancing all versions together. Surviving together. Building together. The separation is an illusion created by our individual experiences.

When you see this clearly, priorities shift. Problems worth solving become obvious. The noise falls away. This isn't some spiritual revelation - just the logical conclusion from examining how consciousness and replication actually work.