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To really cook your goose imagine if we could not only freely modify and "jump" between bodies, but also edit our memories. Kinda like Total Recall turned up to
by Razengan 6y ago
To really cook your goose imagine if we could not only freely modify and "jump" between bodies, but also edit our memories. Kinda like Total Recall turned up to 110, where you can implant fake experiences, remove bad memories, take on an entirely new persona, or clone yourself and have a relationship with your clone. What really makes you "you" then?
There's a great little anime called Kaiba which explores exactly that: https://myanimelist.net/anime/3701/Kaiba https://myanimelist.net/anime/3701/Kaiba
- georgyo 6y agoAltered Carbon sorta plays with this concept a lot. But it's set in a world were it is common place, and people have already detached identity from body.
- Razengan 6y agoIt's commonplace in the Kaiba universe too, with "designer bodies", memory brokers and a black market of custom sex slaves etc.
- kyriakos 6y agoSo a murderer is he still a murderer if his memory is wiped? Or should we let him go? Probably this came up in cases of amnesia already
- mcv 6y agoYou're right, this is an interesting question even without brain transplants. Are you guilty of a crime committed under hypnosis? What if you have multiple personality disorder? What if that disorder is the somehow cured or mitigated, so there's no risk of the murderous personality coming up again? It's a gateway to a marsh of awkward questions.