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The implications of your identity being copied into a new, improved body and what that means when the original you is dead, or what happens when you get copied
by eloff 11y ago
The implications of your identity being copied into a new, improved body and what that means when the original you is dead, or what happens when you get copied more than once, etc are explored in depth in Jasper Scott's excellent Dark Space series: http://www.jaspertscott.com/p/dark-space-v-avilon.html http://www.jaspertscott.com/p/dark-space-v-avilon.html
- lfam 11y agoSome of Greg Egan's books explore this as well. I recommend Diaspora and Permutation City.
- wfn 11y agoAlso see Greg Egan's short story, "The Extra" (http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra) and others, e.g. "Closer" (http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer)
- danbmil99 11y agoAlso see every f-in thing Greg Egan wrote. Then for fun try to google his image.
- loup-vaillant 11y agoThe social problems from multiple instances, I can understand. The original being dead however, doesn't make much sense. As far as current science goes, it doesn't even have a physical meaning. All that matters is the result: if there is an instance of you, no one died, period. (Well, not quite "period", actually. If you let one instance run for a while (a second, a minute, a day?), then destroy it, that certainly looks like murder.)