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Well said, first thing I've though when I saw this project was: sounds like cache-invalidation hell.

Now a second and genuine follow up and wildly generalized question:

What if, given that information isn't lost (no-hiding theorem), death in the biological platforms is a reset for consciousness to continue its evolution after a renewal of any state pollution?

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These conservation laws apply to open systems (which biological platforms are). All ready at the cell level the primary concern is how to "efficiently" do energy cascades which sometimes have unintended (irreversible) side-effects. So cells get "garbage collected", there are other more system level irreversible changes, some intended (memory) and unintended, which I guess are indeed ultimately unsalvageable, which is why reproduction is a thing (pristine copy of genome in new cell).

Even in the case of reproduction, you don't end up with a pristine copy in a new cell.

The study of epigenetics is the realization that cells don't have exec(), only fork(). Most state transfers to the child cells and isn't wiped during reproduction.

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