[FRIAM] death

[Marcus Daniels]

Glen writes:

"But some conception of interruptibility  or parallelism seems necessary also.  If a UTM couldn't stop, mid-algorithm, to work on some other problem, then perhaps death is still needed?"

Humans have minimal short term memory, but an extended UTM could yield any number of continuations.  There would be light cone considerations to get to data referenced by each and a lot of references could be contended by different computational agents in the system as they were trying to run in parallel.

Marcus