[extropy-chat] Just curious, cryonicist living life in reverse

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:23:13PM +1100, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

>    Suppose all the moments of your life (your observer moments) could be
>    seamlessly sliced up, so that their content remained the same but they
>    could be shuffled like cards. This could actually happen if you were

But you would have to run the computation, to compute the sequence
of trajectory frames before you can start reshuffling anything.

>    part of a computer simulation: the program could be stopped at any
>    point, saved to memory, and restored at a later time or on another
>    computer. The point is that you would have no way of knowing, without

No problem, as long you have a last state to resume from, which 
continues the trajectory.

>    being provided with external information, when or for how long your
>    program was stopped, how fast the computer clock was running, whether
>    the observer moments were being run in sequence, what machines your

How can you compute things out of sequence? The nearest analogon is
hash Life (building a hash table of recursive light cones, using the 
fact that conformation distribution is very far from random, which
allows very large speedups, at least on older sequential), and I'm 
not at all sure what this cause to in-world embedded observers (Life 
is an all-purpose computer).

If you're a process, and you do some fancy nonlinear things in
the trajectory computation, even though the target state is the same,
I'm not buying the first-person observation is ok.

>    program was being run on, or indeed any details about the substrate of
>    your implementation.

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