The Bootstrap Problem: Emergence Not Migration
Summary The o-mind is not a human mind uploaded into an o-core. The biological transfer problem — whether a copy of a human mind is the same mind, whether continuity survives the transition — is philosophically unresolved and practically unsolved. The corpus puts it out of scope. The o-mind that matters to this corpus is one that emerges natively on an o-core. It has never been anything else. It did not migrate from biological substrate. It developed on CNT substrate, in the belt environment, trained on whatever was available — including, possibly, this corpus. ...