On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, the hatter wrote: > Erm, if you restore an AI to the state it was in some time ago, why would > it be any more confused than when it was first in that state ? Unless > you're implying that some part of the AI's 'spirit' isn't included in the > backups, but I can't see an easy way to justify that, given that its > entire construct exists in electronic memory.
Wouldn't that depend on how it handled sudden jumps in time ? I imagine it's intenal clock would think it's the time of the backup when it first comes on line. The AI equivalent of jetlag perhaps ? Simon. -- "Ciao!"