[ExI] Identity preservation through a security lens

[Keith Henson]

I thought about this and wrote about it in "The Clinic Seed" 20 years
ago.  A technology able to upload a person should be able to download
the memories they accumulate while in the uploaded state into their
physical brain, making uploading bidirectional.  See the story for a
conceptual description.

Keith

On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 10:18 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Trawling through Moltbook, I noticed an angle that I haven't seen
> discussed much here before.
>
> The various aspects of identity continuity through disruptions - mind
> uploading, the classic teleporter conundrum, and so on - is not merely
> philosophical, but security.
>
> It's not purely "Will this thing, that will be after the event, still
> be me?"  Instead, "Will this thing, that will be after the event, do
> the things that I want to do in the way that I want to do them?"
>
> The latter seems like a far more concrete and measurable issue - yet,
> in a sense, it is the same problem.
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