In Attacking the Shell, the puppet master, Suzi, and Jiushi Hero all upload their data to the Internet and live forever in the infinitely wide network world. But this kind of immortality may be a painful thing in the end.
Where is Suzi?
Where should Motozi's memory (data) be stored? Where should Suzi's soul (program) run? Mozi may store its own data on rented servers or hijacked computers. However, a single machine may malfunction due to fire, earthquake, or hardware aging, or it may be destroyed after being found by the enemy, so Mozi must back up his memory and soul in multiple locations. This is very similar to Voldemort's Horcrux, destroying one that cannot kill Voldemort itself. Killing Voldemort and Suzi must simultaneously destroy all their backups. In "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", Moko once copied his personality into the brain of the robot in the submarine. This shows that Suzi is indeed using multiple backup methods to prevent destruction.
Who is prime?
But in this way, the second problem will arise. Elements with multiple "horcruxes" may have split personality. Consider the following situation. One of Suzi's personality (social animal Suzi) goes to a place where there is no Internet to carry out the war to eliminate terrorists, and the other personality (Fei Zhai Suzi) is on vacation in Hawaii. The moment when these two personalities separate is the same in memory.
But when the social animal element arrives where there is no internet, the social animal element cannot remember and feel at the same time as other elements. Feizhai Suzi was well taken care of by the landlord’s aunt during her vacation in Hawaii. During the chat, the landlord’s aunt said that her son was kidnapped by terrorists ten years ago. There has been no news so far, she cried and passed out. So Feizhai Suzi secretly made up his mind to help the landlord find his son. But it is very tragic that the landlord’s son was kidnapped and joined the terrorists, and he was killed by the social animal element. The plot was particularly bad and the methods were particularly cruel. After the social animal element completes the task and connects to the network, he synchronizes his memory with others. Feizhai Suzi was shocked to find that another herself had killed the landlord's son. At this time, Mo Zi's personality split. One personality of oneself cannot accept another personality of oneself. Just like a nation, such as the Semites, accumulated countless conflicts in eternal time. The "people" could not bear so many conflicts, and finally split, and the Semites themselves also died out. What replaced it was inherited it. The memory and soul of Jews and Arabs. In the same way, the element in this case may also have the same result, ending the eternity called element in the way of splitting.
But Suzi can also consider using consensus algorithms in the field of computer science to solve this split-brain problem (such as the famous paxos), but the consensus algorithm needs to continuously select a master soul and cover other memories that contradict the master soul. For Suzi, this is essentially constantly killing his own personality.
So, in the end, there are two roads in front of Suzi, rejecting eternity and accepting the division of his soul and the death of the body after the endless washing of time; or randomly killing one of the personalities when the personality is divided to obtain eternal existence.
How would you choose if you were a prime child?
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