It's clear to me that derek parfit never encountered alan turing's morpheogenesis ideas. He should have mentioned them by now.
But who was the first who saw both in their mind at once? Surely by now that should have been someone. #reasonsandpersons
example
p264 "it would be pointless to both do what we both most want to do"
my to do list is >1GiB large. Even If I forked once, I still wouldn't even get close to accomplishing most of it. This seems like mostly cultural hangups that make forking, once, seem negative. I say this as a #childfree even.