[Xplo]

Bill, would it be wholly inaccurate to say that ghosting tech makes it possible for a person to become a Platonic ideal of themself, from which variously-divergent instances of that ideal could be derived (and to which they could be compared)?

You suggested before that someone whose viewpoint terminates due to death and is replaced by a previously-uploaded copy does something similar to leaving a family business to an heir. I think this is a poor analogy. Sons and daughters are not really so much like their parents. You have no way of knowing that your offspring would run the business the way you have. But a ghost has your values, your work ethic, your business sense, your experience, and so forth. Assuming it's not tampered with - and let's not muddy these waters with that possibility - it can be trusted to do what you would do, because the unique combination of traits that define you can be recorded, stored, and reinstanced.