Ted Chiang's SF story collection "Exhalation" has a wonderful story on digital life forms ("digients"): The Lifecycle of Software Objects. It raises many quest

Ted Chiang's SF story collection "Exhalation" has a wonderful story on digital life forms ("digients"): The Lifecycle of Software Objects. It raises many questions, among them the ethics of putting such beings to sleep, or restoring them from a previous checkpoint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Objects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Obje... Full text of the novella: https://web.archive.org/web/20130306030242/http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_lifecycle_of_software_objects_by_ted_chiang https://web.archive.org/web/20130306030242/http://subterrane...