Kaj_Sotala comments on Plastination is maturing and needs funding, says Hanson - LessWrong

70 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 June 2012 08:00PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 19 June 2012 09:33:34PM *  5 points [-]

So... set a reasonable endocrine state, not 0.

There are few enough degrees of freedom in the endocrine system that having it arbitrarily reset to some normal level... won't alter your identity, it'll just alter your mood.

Especially since this is going to have to be emulated anyway.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 20 June 2012 09:46:38AM 13 points [-]

That works fine if it's just the endocrine system whose information you lose. It works less well if there are a hundred systems, each with several degrees of freedom, whose joint state needs to be in some relatively narrow region in order to preserve one's identity.