[ExI] Technical Uploading Difficulties

Jef Allbright jef at jefallbright.net
Fri Mar 7 22:42:25 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
>
> At 01:56 PM 3/7/2008 -0800, Jef wrote:
>
>  >On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Henrique Moraes Machado
>  ><cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > >  But with an emulation, the uploading proccess is some kind of "make a copy
>  > >  and destroy (probably) the original". Then the uploaded me would
>  > not be me.
>  > >  It would just be something that thinks it's me. The "me" must be
>  > transferred
>  > >  to the "new me", not copied, more like uninstalling my software and
>  > >  installing it somewhere else.
>  >
>  >Oh no!  Not again!  ;-)
>
>  You might fear that this is an ancient undead thread being
>  reinstalled, but it's not--it's an entirely new emulation that just
>  *thinks* it's the old thread.
>
Alrighty then.  At least it's not the same old thread experiencing
multiple run times.

- Jef



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