Personal identity and reconstruction, some thoughts prompted by the novel Hyperion

We all know about the teletransporter debate- if you are destroyed and an exact copy is created elsewhere, have you survived?

I'm increasingly interested in a somewhat more marginal case, one that may actually come into play in the future (not the near future though, four or more decades at a minimum, maybe centuries).

In the novel Hyperion the author imagines a digital reconstruction on John Keats, based on his genetic code, and on all extant life data including his poems, letters and known autobiographical details. The question arises 'is this character actually Keats in any meaningful sense'.

Suppose a super intelligence were to reconstruct you, making best guesses about your personality and memories using your genetic code, all your Facebook activity, your emails, all metadata available details of your life history etc.

Do you consider the resulting being to be you? Is this a way of 'surviving' your own death, or (assuming you believe the psychological view of personal survival) is the psychological continuity not close enough?

Submitted October 31, 2017 at 12:50PM by no_bear_so_low http://ift.tt/2A4dh1O