1. When Douglas is invaded by David, he does not remember the time period, except way down somewhere, in subconscious or whatever. So if David entered before, or even during download to 1937, Douglas is not the functioning consciousness of VR activated in his brain, and has no short term or long term memory of the period, so it must be David who experiences the 1937 download. What Douglas experiences is Ferguson's 1937 brain activity.
At least that's one way to look at it. But it might depend on whether David went down to Douglas and then David downloaded to Ferguson, and did not initially connect to Douglas's downloaded brain, which may have unpredictable effects, or might be interpreted by the system as a Douglas dead-state, so Douglas uploads to 2024.
2. In the download scenario, it is conscious downloader's brain cells that are being twiddled and are controlling, and therefore connected to the ultimate target sim, which we're saying is two levels down. The transposition must follow the connection, so Ferguson goes to David's world.
3. It might happen in an experiment, say Douglas building some circuitry in the 1937 world, and then using it on himself during a download to Ferguson. He would need to leave a note for ferguson to try it at a certain time.
Whether they could switch or not depends on how the uploaded brain state is interpreted by the system. Would it trigger the sim-deceased-state, and cause the migration upward? Would the downloader, Douglas, be deceased in 1937, inhabiting a dead man's brain? Or would they cheat the system because they triggered the dead state effect, but without real death?
That also seems like it might be reversible--if they're both still alive and conscious.
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