I’m surprised to see no mention of Diaspora by Greg Egan. Just finished it. (Possible spoiler ahead.) I’m not sure it’s not just wishful thinking that consciou

I’m surprised to see no mention of Diaspora by Greg Egan. Just finished it. (Possible spoiler ahead.) I’m not sure it’s not just wishful thinking that consciousness can be cloned and exist in a “software” form at all, but that general idea (and the subsequent question of whether such existence would be satisfactory to us accustomed to physical human bodies) is very much along the lines of what’s being discussed in the thread.