What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Permutation City
SOLVED: Adult Fiction
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SOLVED. Adult Sci-Fi about an uploaded mind that should have the right to delete itself, but the menu item is 'greyed out'. Read description in 2020 or 2021. [s]
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Reminds me of the description on the back of "Permutation City" by Greg Egan (which I can't lay my hands on at the moment)And this description of the book https://www.worldcat.org/title/permut...
"What happens when your virtual clone hates your guts? "
Here's the text I was thinking of"
The good news is that you have just awakened into Eternal Life. You are going to live forever. Immortality is a reality. A medical miracle? Not exactly.
The bad news is that you are a scrap of electronic code. The world you see around you, the you that is seeing it, has been digitized, scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. You are a Copy that knows it is a copy.
The good news is that there is a way out. By law, every Copy has the option of terminating itself, and waking up to normal flesh-and-blood life again. The bail-out is on the utilities menu. You pull it down...The bad news is that it doesn't work. Someone has blocked the bail-out option. And you know who did it. You did. The other you. The real you. The one that wants to keep you here forever.
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Although the book was published in the 1990s, it was rereleased in 2013 or so https://www.gregegan.net/PERMUTATION/...
That's it! Thank you, thank you, thank you. This was driving me nuts.
Uploaded minds
Apparently the idea is that you can upload your mind to digital storage and it is like a clone. "By Law" these digital clones have the right to self-terminate. Somehow your clone discovers that you have disabled this option for them making them a prisoner. There is a comment "what if your digital clone hates your guts" or something like that. Read this description in 2020 or early 2021.