If it were possible to make a perfect copy of your mind (which it's almost certainly not, but Altered Carbon as science-fiction asks us to accept that it is, as a starting premise), is that a lesser "version" of you in any meaningful way? We use words like "copy" and "original" and assign them value because of their origins, where transcriptions of books or photocopies or analog tape recordings were imperfect.īut for digital copies, that's not really how it is. When you sleep (or are knocked unconscious) your consciousness is essentially halted, then started up again later. If you don't believe in the soul, and instead believe that the mind and the consciousness is a person's true self, that raises a lot of other questions. Just because it's still the original body that mind was taken from, that doesn't change the separation which occurred. It's like a fly-by-wire system in a plane - instead of the mind having direct contact to control the body, the mind is being fed into electronics which are controlling the body. Beyond just the Neo-Catholics, one would have to wonder if even implanting the stack in the first place kills the soul.
If you believe that the soul exists, and is the true self, then you just don't accept the premise of stacks and DHF being people at all. It's a philosophical question, not a technical one. Don't discuss spoilers on non-spoiler tagged posts without using spoiler "code" >!Your Text Here!!Your Text Here!Don't put spoilers in the title of your post.ALTERED CARBON is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness "re-sleeved" into new bodies.
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