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An excellent book which covers this topic is Permutation City by Greg Egan (1994). If we can clone all of you (physical characteristics, brain, memories, perso
by unpythonic 9y ago
An excellent book which covers this topic is Permutation City by Greg Egan (1994). If we can clone all of you (physical characteristics, brain, memories, personality) into a simulation, what are all the implications?
In it, a perfect replica of a person is scanned, and when it boots up, it continues it's existence from the time of the scan. Hacking on the model is possible, so you can avoid certain memories, update "physical" appearance, etc.
Given how prevalent virtualization has become recently, I thought it was a fairly modern book. I was surprised to find out it came out in the nineties, and not only has it held up well, it would be considered visionary even if it had been published yesterday.
- aluhut 9y agoYou should try the Takeshi Covacs books by Richard Morgan. There is a TV show coming out in two days (good timing here) based on the first book (Altered Carbon). It'll probably be a mess since the book has quite some violence. But the thoughts above are played out in a interesting and entertaining way. All three books play in the same universe with the "same" main character but are not a trilogy.
- gergoerdi 9y ago*Kovacs.
- aluhut 9y agoWell that's embarrassing...but it was late here ;)
- fernly 9y agoCan you link to info on the TV show? Because all I can find is Morgan's recent blog post recounting his visit to the set: https://www.richardkmorgan.com/2018/01/fragments-of-a-jet-lagged-dream/ https://www.richardkmorgan.com/2018/01/fragments-of-a-jet-la...
- mirimir 9y ago> the book has quite some violence That's a huge understatement. Starting with the opening, which sets the context. And damn, that clinic strike! And the writing just puts you right there. So yeah, I'm not optimistic about the video adaptation.
- Symmetry 9y agoRobin Hanson recently wrote a non-fiction book on the topic looking at what standard economic and sociological models say would happen if this were possible. http://ageofem.com/ http://ageofem.com/
- zantana 9y agoEspecially since this topic covers about half of the episodes in the most recent season of Black Mirror.
- sumpfsocke 9y agoI've recently played through the game "Soma" which had a similar concept. Warning spoilers: The main character goes to a doctor to get his brain scanned following a car crash. After the brain scan he wakes up in a distant future and discovers that his brain scan was used as a sort of programming template and that there are many (modified) versions of him living on in robots. Throughout the game this has many more implications. Also at the dawn of humankind the earth sends out a satellite called the Ark which houses some kind of simulated reality inhabited by the brain scans of selected humans since earth has become uninhabitable.
- Ullaakut 9y agoAwesome game, I recommend it to everyone. Worth it even if you've been spoiled the ending by the comment below.