Then when the physical body goes, the clone is so you that it doesn't care about the other part leaving any more than getting a haircut.

The database goes into a robot with all the sensory mechanisms of a body, then to prevent overpopulation, you get dropped off on Europa to be a colonizer.

Be like a heaven thing.
-- doctorremulac3, Jan 31 2025

There was a science fiction story about this. Everyone is implanted with a parallel electronic brain that grows with them over time. They're supposed to think exactly the same. A girl realizes she's thinking two different thoughts and thinks the one with more "bad" thoughts is the electronic one, so she'll die when they kill the organic brain. Then her time comes and the "her" that was worrying is still alive. i.e. they killed he organic brain, leaving the more socially accepted one alive. It's really subtle and deep in its philosophical implications.
-- Voice, Jan 31 2025


[Voice] I read a story like that, except it was a guy who was worried that he'd die when they scoop his brain out and the brain chip would go sauntering away in his body. "He" eventually goes through with it, only to find out that he is the chip and the guy he's a copy of really does commit suicide by doing it. Horrifying story really.
-- Selky, Feb 04 2025


Another bone! Damn! That's it I'm never coming back here!

Okay I'm back.
-- doctorremulac3, Feb 05 2025


It's like the transporter on Star Trek...

...is it you transported?, or are you destroyed and a facsimile of you emerge?

As much as I want my thought processes to continue for millennia...

...should they?
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 05 2025



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