From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 11:38:04 MST
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> I am an upload, and maintain an incremental backup which is up to
> date within biological chronon (currently some 10 ms). I step up to
> a nuke in person, and detonate it. My hardware is destroyed within
> ms, and the remote backup is being instantly instantiated. What I see
> subjectively is that I'm teleported to a new location. No bifurcation
> had time to occur. I'm happy that I have kept a backup.
Yes, I can agree. The key is that no bifurcation had time to occur, so there
is no disparity in self/identity/personality. For the moment I'll take your
word for it that a 10 ms biological chronon is a sufficiently short time
interval (in my own arguments along these lines I used Planck Time, which as
you know is of much shorter duration).
> I am an upload, and maintain an incremental backup which is
> up to date within biological chronon. Somebody tortures me for
> an hour, and then kills me. The remote backup is being instantiated.
> I see subjectively is that I'm teleported to a new location, after
> a harrowing experience.
Yes.
> I am an upload, and maintain an incremental backup which is
> up to date within biological chronon. Somebody severes the link
> to the archive, tortures me for an hour, and then kills me. The remote
> backup is being instantiated as soon as the link is severed (or after
> an hour, or two megayears). While I'm screaming and bleeding virtual
> blood all the way to /dev/null the new instance of me perceives to be
> teleported after the link has been severed (whew! it heaves a virtual
> sigh).The new instance of me which has forked of (and thus is no longer
> me) has no idea what is happening to me. All it knows is that it got
> reactivated at some point when the link broke down. While I certainly
> wish I was in its place this doesn't currently help me with the current
> predilection.
Excellent illustration.
-gts
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