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Given the discussion surrounding this, anyone who’s into gaming should check out Soma; as it tackles a lot of the questions/scenarios in this thread but with robot host instead of clones. Minor spoiler:
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Including one of the copies still being there (and conscious) after you transfer to a new “body” and the protagonist freaking out at the implications of this occurring.The discussion around Soma always annoys me because people tend to get really worked up and take its premise as fact, like this must be the way it would really work and there's no other possible way for things to go.
Like, for example, what would it be like if they maintained a perfect shared stream of consciousness between the original and the new body with the new body also having a copy of your memories up to that point?
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They do show the main character being able to inhabit another body like his at the same time, but never really expand on it iircWould you lose your sense of "self" and experience something like phantom limb but it's an entire body? What would "you" experience if the original body died during this hypothetical experiment? Who knows. ¯\(ツ)/¯
They show that you are both conscious. The fact that identical clone A and identical clone B with for 1 second idebtical consciousness would both look at their hand when they wake up is actually more evidence they are truly identical
But I LOVED SOMA. One of my favorites in the horror genre