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Another reason is to go and experience other things in the world and then bring back those memories. Quite literally, too! When a fork quits, the cladist who forked them receives all of their memories to incorporate with their own. A cladist may wish to cook their delicious meal, but they're also entertaining guests: they can fork off an instance to go cook the meal while they entertain and, when they're done, quit. The down-tree instance will receive all of the memories of having cooked and all of the feelings about the process so that they know to warn their guests, "Hey, uh...the pasta's a liiiittle spicy..." | Another reason is to go and experience other things in the world and then bring back those memories. Quite literally, too! When a fork quits, the cladist who forked them receives all of their memories to incorporate with their own. A cladist may wish to cook their delicious meal, but they're also entertaining guests: they can fork off an instance to go cook the meal while they entertain and, when they're done, quit. The down-tree instance will receive all of the memories of having cooked and all of the feelings about the process so that they know to warn their guests, "Hey, uh...the pasta's a liiiittle spicy..." | ||
One can only ever merge down to the one from whom one was forked up until 2401 | One can only ever merge down to the one from whom one was forked up until {{Systime|2401|2|11}}, and after that point, one can merge to any of one's cocladists, but only within a clade. | ||
"But what about the transporter paradox?" you ask. Post-Self's answer to that is a shrug. The memories live on. All of the experiences live on. One simply lived two lives at once for that time. | "But what about the transporter paradox?" you ask. Post-Self's answer to that is a shrug. The memories live on. All of the experiences live on. One simply lived two lives at once for that time. | ||