But at that point, if our avatars were taken, are we really who we are at that point? Is the memories and mind we have in these bodies, the same as the person before?
[Well he knew something was wrong with them because he had an idea of what some of the "before" was. Even if he didn't know how that person came to be.]
Do we have souls? Or are we just data? Are we simply copies at this point?
[It's a bit odd she's not surprised and takes it so easily. It's a thing to file for later.]
If we're simply copies, what is to say this isn't another simulation? Or, if somehow we're digital made flesh, what is to say we are real? There are a lot of books where the protagonist will learn a startling truth, that the person they thought they were is a lie, and they are just a copy, a fake.
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[Which was hardly real.]
But at that point, if our avatars were taken, are we really who we are at that point? Is the memories and mind we have in these bodies, the same as the person before?
[Well he knew something was wrong with them because he had an idea of what some of the "before" was. Even if he didn't know how that person came to be.]
Do we have souls? Or are we just data? Are we simply copies at this point?
[It's a bit odd she's not surprised and takes it so easily. It's a thing to file for later.]
If we're simply copies, what is to say this isn't another simulation? Or, if somehow we're digital made flesh, what is to say we are real? There are a lot of books where the protagonist will learn a startling truth, that the person they thought they were is a lie, and they are just a copy, a fake.