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The most interesting point, if you read the article, which from the comments no one actually seems to have done; she finishes with the idea: "Our identity is a
by xd 8y ago
The most interesting point, if you read the article, which from the comments no one actually seems to have done; she finishes with the idea: "Our identity is a state, but if it’s not a state of matter—not a state of individual physical objects, like quarks and electrons—then a state of what?"
The geek in me thinks of a program at rest on disk vs a running program.
- resource0x 8y agoRunning program, with another running program reflecting on what the first program is doing. And maybe vice versa :)
- nixpulvis 8y agoBut running programs have state too. I stopped reading this half way because the author really doesn't have anything to say here. But I can understand that it's a thought provoking piece.
- xd 8y agoDifferent states.. state of an electron on disc used by every execution of a program vs the very different state of a program after it's been running for some time vs any other invocation of that program. edit: it's what makes debugging so much fun :D