Scott Wilson
ChrisIn Pixar's Coco we learned that the souls of the dead vanish if the person is forgotten. This imply souls are reference counted.
bondolo@chrisvest nah, could also be that they are no longer in the reachability graph and got garbage collected.
@bondolo That's a possibility. I don't think it was revealed in the movie if cyclic components would be released or not.
@chrisvest Regardless, having strong roots seems important.
Joe ❌👑@chrisvest @bondolo A character who was in danger of being forgotten had dead friends, so evidently cyclic connections would not protect him from the soul collector.
mirabilos@bondolo @chrisvest on death, one
puts one’s own soul and all references one holds, so cyclic references would eventually dissolve
Chris Laprun ⏚@bondolo @chrisvest was gonna say the same thing 😅
Senny@chrisvest Proof that we're in a simulation?
@sennomo It’s not a simulation to the characters in a film
Wilfried Klaebe@chrisvest What about "Last Action Hero"?
Dave Townsend@chrisvest are the reference counts atomic or can we exploit the multi-threaded nature of the universe to find some timing condition to incorrectly increase the reference count for some soul?
@Mossop My inclination is that souls have more of a wave-like nature to them than particle-like, so I don't think it's atomic, but honestly there's a lot of uncertainty here.
zweije@chrisvest I suspect there might be some generational garbage collection going on.
Fangh@chrisvest The Great Garbage Collector
Silk_Flame (she/her) 😷@chrisvest Learned it in the Sam Neill Merlin miniseries. Lady of the Lake tells him "When we are forgotten we cease to exist." (And later he uses that against Mab)