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So what if you got alzheimers or non-fatal brain injury?


If you only have a stack and none of the other fancy backup things, then what would happen if you got alzheimers? The stack is the latest version of you, so if your brain is turned to mush by the disease, then the stack wouldn't really do you any good would it?

Similarly if you were in an accident that damaged your brain but you continued to live, then what if you then took the stack out and put it in another sleeve?

Wouldn't the stack be "corrupted" in either of those scenarios?

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Yeah I wondered this too, and I came to the conclusion that it must be that the stack interfaces with the biological brain in such a way that it controls the brain and takes over its functions, but it is not actually affected itself by the brain, so if something goes wrong with the biological brain, the stack would remain intact. Perhaps people don't even get diseases like alzheimers in this world because the stack does all the memories and everything, the brain is just used for motor control and sensory input and output? So if the brain started getting diseased or whatever, it would just mean the stack couldn't take down more memories, but once the body died, the stack could be put in another body and the person would remember whatever was the last memory they managed to put down before the brain was corrupted?

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just rollback to an earlier savestate

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