[ExI] Beowulf

[Bryan Bishop]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 11:27, giovanni santost wrote:
>   also will be cool if one day one could actually be aware what the
> different avatars feel and experience... a multiplication of
> consciousness....

I have put thought into this issue before. Basically my conclusion is 
that we should not base our plans on being able to do full multifaceted 
experiences from different nodes (many clones, for example, or rats 
wired into your cyborgish net). 

I have, as of yet, not come up with a way to do "brain synchronization" 
of memories and experiences. Maybe we will one day start working on an 
artificial corpus collasum, and maybe there can be some minimal 
synchronization routines during sleep, but as far as I can tell, when 
you have avatars/subminds/mindbots running around, if they die, a part 
of you dies with them, just as if you had a stroke and lost the 
function of a part of your brain. Except your total brain would be 
much, much larger.

If anybody has some thoughts on brain synchronization, I would be very 
interested in hearing the ideas.

- Bryan