I’m not really sure that I care about duplicates that much.
Didn’t you feel sad when Yoona-939 was terminated, or wish all happiness for Sonmi-451?
All the other Yoona-939s were fine, right? And that Yoona-939 was terminated quickly enough to prevent divergence, wasn’t she?
(my point is, you’re making it seem like you’re breaking the degeneracy by labeling them. But their being identical is deep)
But now she’s… you know… now she’s… (wipes away tears) slightly less real.
You hit pretty strong diminishing returns on existence once you’ve hit the ‘at least one copy’ point.
Clones aren’t duplicates. They may have started out as duplicates but they were not by the time the reader is introduced to them.
Didn’t you feel sad when Yoona-939 was terminated, or wish all happiness for Sonmi-451?
All the other Yoona-939s were fine, right? And that Yoona-939 was terminated quickly enough to prevent divergence, wasn’t she?
(my point is, you’re making it seem like you’re breaking the degeneracy by labeling them. But their being identical is deep)
But now she’s… you know… now she’s… (wipes away tears) slightly less real.
You hit pretty strong diminishing returns on existence once you’ve hit the ‘at least one copy’ point.
Clones aren’t duplicates. They may have started out as duplicates but they were not by the time the reader is introduced to them.