It’s me again

Still curious about WTF Linkie Winkie is all about, I found this site at the top of Technorati’s list on the subject. The author, “The Armchair Anarchist“, took me in with his style and apparent intelligence. I had to explore his posts a little further. This one got me to click the little orange button.

Trying to get my head around the implications of creating multiple copies of a personality could send my single thread into a compute loop.

I have a feeling that if it were possible to clone your personality, it would only remain identical with yours for a very brief period. Then, like identical twins, they would diverge by virtue of experience. I don’t think either consciousness would remain fully conscious of the other’s environment. But having so much prior experience in common would create a very spooky kinship of thought and feeling. It could give new meaning to the term “soul mates”.

But marriage between personality clones, assuming it became physically possible, would probably be banned — for the same ultimate reason that we have laws against incest: it eliminates diversity and accentuates abnormalities.

What other strange problems would result from such technological “advances”?