{"id":4412,"date":"2022-10-24T22:32:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:42:48","slug":"upload-resurrection-fantasy-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"upload\/reincarnation fantasy, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"?p=4259\">Previous version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If your thousands of instances are linked in a line, the youngest and eldest are affected only very slowly by blending (if the middle is not to be hugely overrepresented); that is why I came up with daily sex-switching. The deletion of one avatar each night is also implied by the merging.<\/p>\n<p>But if you start with two copies of the chain, linked at matching ends to make a loop, then no deletion is necessary <em>and<\/em> the degree of blending can be the same all around; each-you imports yesterday&#8217;s memory from your clockwise and counterclockwise neighbors alternately, with a weight of 1\/3 or less. A permanent body has social advantages, so I drop the automatic switching.<\/p>\n<p>If a body dies, voluntarily or otherwise, an irregularity in the blending flows out, becoming smaller at each step. Why would you kill one of your bodies voluntarily? For one thing, I mean to keep the idea of alternating sexes around the loop, and you might find living as the wrong sex, even half the (subjective) time, intolerable. (I believe I am otherwise; else would I have the idea?)<\/p>\n<p>If the friendly(?) aliens\u2019 goal is to merge all of humanity into one meta-mind (think <i>Childhood&#8217;s End<\/i>), your two strands are joined only at the elder end; your baby ends are linked instead to other strands, typically of very distant cultures.<\/p>\n<p>What if your private worldlet has no adults because you died as a minor? Some of everyone&#8217;s instances \u2013 would every third be enough? \u2013 ought to live in a <a href=\"?p=3193\">shared world<\/a>, each in a different town (though all near each other).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 Nov 04:<\/strong> I made a <a href=\"\/pjf.htm\">more stable page<\/a> collecting my thoughts from this thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous version. If your thousands of instances are linked in a line, the youngest and eldest are affected only very slowly by blending (if the middle is not to be hugely overrepresented); that is why I came up with daily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=4412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4761,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/4761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}