From: Scott Badger (wbadger@psyberlink.net)
Date: Tue Nov 03 1998 - 07:02:44 MST
>Herein lies one of the two most formidable obstacles to this approach. The
>continuity problem is a vexing dilemna that has been debated at length in
>this forum. Two identities exist (the backup and the new), separated by a
24
>hour time period, and only one emerges after the judging process (assuming
>the "overwriting" scenario). Obviously, one entity is no longer in
>existence.
>
>The other obstacle is the solution to the aforementioned problem. If the
new
>entity, even though judged undesirable by the backup entity, is allowed to
>continue then it might want to institute its own review process. In a
>cosmologically short span of time the storage capacity needed to store all
>the mind trajectories of me would exceed the information storage capacity
of
>the universe.
>
>
>Doug Bailey
>doug.bailey@ey.com
>nanotech@cwix.com
Are you conceptualizing this as though the two entities are
communicating with each other? If so, the acceptability of
the newer entity by the older should be fairly clear by judgement
time. If the newer entity, quite pleased with it's own development
despite the criticisms of the older entity, suspected that it was
about to be overwritten, then wouldn't it make a secure copy of
itself? No, you're scenario would require that only the older entity
could have the ability to overwrite or make copies. Yes? Otherwise,
info storage capacity problems are inevitable.
SB
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