I don’t fully understand the actual math of it so I probably am not fully getting it. But if the core idea is something like “you can at every timestep take new experiences and then choose how to integrate them into a new you, with the particulars of that choice (and thus the nature of the new you) drawing on everything that you are at that timestep”, then I like it.
I might quibble a bit about the extent to which something like that is actually a conscious choice, but if the “you” in question is thought to be all of your mind (subconsciousness and all) then that fixes it. Plus making it into more of a conscious choice over time feels like a neat aspirational goal.
… now I do feel more of a desire to live some several hundred years in order to do that, actually.
I don’t fully understand the actual math of it so I probably am not fully getting it. But if the core idea is something like “you can at every timestep take new experiences and then choose how to integrate them into a new you, with the particulars of that choice (and thus the nature of the new you) drawing on everything that you are at that timestep”, then I like it.
I might quibble a bit about the extent to which something like that is actually a conscious choice, but if the “you” in question is thought to be all of your mind (subconsciousness and all) then that fixes it. Plus making it into more of a conscious choice over time feels like a neat aspirational goal.
… now I do feel more of a desire to live some several hundred years in order to do that, actually.