If he had performed “copy and delete the original” without having been author of the code, would his cyberspace-clone even realize his meatspace original had been terminated?
Even more interesting, what is to stop you from making a potentially infinite # of uploads (or copies of what has already been uploaded) to create infinite cyber clones, i.e. an infinitely self-replicating Team Ryan in my case. Clearly the entities in the story have divergent experience and consciousness after the replication. A growing # of exponentially self-cloning immortal entities would necessarily all have the same goal (at least at the start of the clone life assuming subsequent experience can’t be instantly transferred between clones), allowing near infinite division of labor. As long as the cyber-selves could act to accumulate the meatspace hardware necessary to enable the storage and processing of the replications I don’t see any limit.
Unless the old man’s machine only has sufficient resources to hold a single cyberclone and he cannot both code and have the clone at the same time (and he only has one machine), he would be better served by letting the cyberclone help him solve the “move” problem (and self replicate to gather more ‘help’). That is, if he could trust his cyberclone…
If he had performed “copy and delete the original” without having been author of the code, would his cyberspace-clone even realize his meatspace original had been terminated?
Even more interesting, what is to stop you from making a potentially infinite # of uploads (or copies of what has already been uploaded) to create infinite cyber clones, i.e. an infinitely self-replicating Team Ryan in my case. Clearly the entities in the story have divergent experience and consciousness after the replication. A growing # of exponentially self-cloning immortal entities would necessarily all have the same goal (at least at the start of the clone life assuming subsequent experience can’t be instantly transferred between clones), allowing near infinite division of labor. As long as the cyber-selves could act to accumulate the meatspace hardware necessary to enable the storage and processing of the replications I don’t see any limit.
Unless the old man’s machine only has sufficient resources to hold a single cyberclone and he cannot both code and have the clone at the same time (and he only has one machine), he would be better served by letting the cyberclone help him solve the “move” problem (and self replicate to gather more ‘help’). That is, if he could trust his cyberclone…
Excellent and elegant minimalism.
Red Planet Blues explores this theme.