[ExI] Future Bodies

[Brian Njenga]

On 01/23/2014 11:59 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Ben <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Kelly Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> if you fork your life experience to do two things at once, then every
>> time you
>>> remerge those threads, one of the forks is gonna die... Jusy saying.
>> Sorry, I don't understand this.  How is one fork dying?  And which one?
>>
> I'm using fork in the Linux or Unix sense.
>
> That is, I create a copy of myself (usually in VR) and have it go learn
> something, or have some experience, or do some work, then I merge that
> copy's experiences into my primary memory. At that point, the purpose of
> the copy is finished, and its' execution can be terminated. This is
> essentially killing a copy of yourself.
>
> Does that make slightly more sense?
>
> -Kelly
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Have you read Greg Egan's Quarantine? It doesn't matter if you're
"killing" a copy of yourself, since all of those experiences are
assimilated into a single mind that retains a certain perspective in its
perceptions and memories... It all adds up to normality.
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