(shrug) It’s Mark’s term and I’m usually willing to make good-faith efforts to use other people’s language when talking to them. And, yes, he seems to be drawing a distinction between computation that occurs with rapid enough updates that it seems continuous to a human observer and computation that doesn’t. I have no idea why he considers that distinction important to personal identity, though… as far as I can tell, the whole thing depends on the implicit idea of identity as some kind of ghost in the machine that dissipates into the ether if not actively preserved by a measurable state change every N microseconds. I haven’t confirmed that, though.
(shrug) It’s Mark’s term and I’m usually willing to make good-faith efforts to use other people’s language when talking to them. And, yes, he seems to be drawing a distinction between computation that occurs with rapid enough updates that it seems continuous to a human observer and computation that doesn’t. I have no idea why he considers that distinction important to personal identity, though… as far as I can tell, the whole thing depends on the implicit idea of identity as some kind of ghost in the machine that dissipates into the ether if not actively preserved by a measurable state change every N microseconds. I haven’t confirmed that, though.