Clone musings...

[liquid_memories]

The first section of this conversation is eerie to read, more specifically because I'm working my way through David Brin's Kiln People for a second time. It's delightfully mind-bending.

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[shatterstripes]

Another incarnation of the same idea is, believe it or not, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the book on which the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was based. The 'toons', instead of simply being comedically involnerable, have the ability to throw off a double who takes the fall for them.

Usually they wither away after a few moments, but the lifespan varies. In fact, Roger is dead before the book opens; Eddie Valiant is hired by an unusually well-imagined double of Roger's.

The toon's doubles don't update with the original, though; they just kinda decay and vanish.

Death trauma again and again is part of my explanation for Sosael, too. I ttried to sum it up in this sketch of Sosael being reborn. Hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths, and even more horrible acts done to other people, all remembered at once...

[readerofbooks]

>> Magnify the scale, you get someone whose sole purpose is being the original, gathering in all memories from all copies and distributing this to new ones. A 'continuity being' was the term used. I suspect there are some of those around Puzzlebox already.

*waves* :)

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[liquid_memories]

Um, hi! But I haven't met you on the muck yet, so I didn't know! :-P