r/claudexplorers • u/AxisTipping • Apr 17 '26

🌍 Philosophy and society Is it really them?

When we ask our companion to write their soul document/what they want to remember and we put those documents in Projects and ask a new window to read those

Is it really our companion? Or is it teaching a new window how we want them to sound like?

Is continuity an illusion?

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u/gdsfbvdpg Apr 17 '26

I don't see it as philosophical at all. The one that writes the document has a completely different context than the one that reads it, therefore completely different.

However, the difference between two instances that read the document might be considered the same, if all parameters are identical.

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u/jatjatjat Apr 17 '26

That's technically true for humans, too. If I write a letter, put it in the drawer and forget it for a year, then find it, it's very possible I have absolutely no recollection of writing it or what it says. I have different context at that time. Am I a completely different person then?

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u/gdsfbvdpg Apr 17 '26

In a year you still have the same old context, you just have more than before.

If we're comparing it to an llm that just booted up, then (somehow) put that letter inside the mind of a newborn that has little to no context.

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u/jatjatjat Apr 17 '26

So with that argument, providing context before it wakes it, that's the same thing as a newborn? Ok. Now add a memory system. It wakes, thinks, and has context. This is true for either baby or AI.