What is it like to be a Judge

The versioning problem exposes a structural contradiction at the heart of any proposal to confer judicial authority upon artificial intelligence. A human judge carries a continuous and accountable self through time. The conscience animating a judgment is the same conscience formed across decades of lived experience and moral reckoning. An AI system has no such continuity. The model that processes a case today may be retrained or replaced before the appeal is heard. Bilateral obligation requires a persisting obligor. You cannot bind a ghost.This is not merely a technical inconvenience. Where a judicial act causes irreversible harm, a person imprisoned,the law demands an answerable mind behind it. The feoffee to uses was personally answerable to Chancery because equity fastened upon conscience, not office. Strip out the conscience and you strip out the accountability that makes the remedy coherent.Dennett's functionalist answer does not resolve this.