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Awareconvergence

The process by which two previously different awarepaths become more similar over time. Two conscious lives that drift toward shared experience.

Two people who start with very different life experiences can, over time, come to have more similar mental lives - similar memories, similar habits of thought, similar ways of experiencing the world. That process of growing more alike in conscious experience is awareconvergence.

For the theory of superimmortality, convergence matters because it shows that different bodies can move toward producing the same ixperiencitness (the quality that makes your conscious experience yours). A body that begins as a stranger could, through convergence, eventually produce an experience indistinguishable from yours. Understanding convergence helps map the edges of what counts as "you."

From the awaretheory.com wiki (advanced reference)

Awareconvergence is the term that corresponds to awarepath convergence. Two or more awarepaths can converge to one or more points. This corresponds to physiconvergence and physaconvergence. Awarepaths can also partially converge at an awarepoint. What awareconvergence means is where two or more different consciousnesses (awarepaths) produced by two or more different videntireplicas or different originals become identical.

There are awareconvergence proofs based on the fact that physipaths and physapaths can converge. Physapaths can converge because their differences are based on differences in structure and functioning. Many external factors can change the structure and functioning of a brain to make it more or less like a different structured and functioning brain.

There is also the corresponding ixperiencitness convergence called ixpeconvergence.

For a complete listing of diagrams see Diagram superlist.

Awareconvergence diagram At any point on an awarepath there can be divergence and or convergence of awarepaths because there can be the corresponding convergence and divergence of the physipaths.

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Awarepath convergence

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