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I thought asking similar lines with Altered Carbon: If you can switch physical bodies, then how can you prove you're you? Do you have to memorise a GUID? What
by BLKNSLVR 3y ago
I thought asking similar lines with Altered Carbon: If you can switch physical bodies, then how can you prove you're you?
Do you have to memorise a GUID? What if you forget it? What is someone else knows yours? If there's no physical link, how is it provable?
- prepend 3y agoThey skipped this in Altered Carbon and it was just a “rule.” Memorizing a GUID wouldn’t work because someone could read it from your memory. Stephenson did this well, I think, in Dodge with the PURDAH as it was an AI trained on every characteristic of an individual through their life so it was impossible to fake. Still hand waving, but logically consistent hand waving for an id that spans consciousness transferring from biology to digital.