[extropy-chat] I keep asking myself...

[Russell Wallace]

On 4/6/06, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you have distinct instantiations of ones mind gathering widely
> different experience sets one would expect them to slowly become distinct
> individuals (kind of like identical twins).  But if you allow frequent
> resyncing then the entity is effectively a distributed mega-mind.  This is
> very nearly a requirement for indefinite longevity as it is the only way to
> trump the local impacts of the hazard function that would destroy subsets of
> your mind.  (I pointed this out at Extro-3 back in '97 -- that if one wanted
> to live a very long time one had to become a "distributed replicated
> intelligence".)
>

You could do it that way, but there's no need; all you have to do is take
inert backup copies and store them a safe distance away, to be activated if
something happens to the single running copy.
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