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> the protagonist learns to reprogram his own mind

You'd want a backup before trying anything substantial.

Probably, but it doesn't protect you against bad edge cases, like screwing with your own mind so much that you no longer can or want to activate the backup.

Those are interesting issues. The answer, I guess, would be to only work on copies. But even then, nuking a copy of yourself would be troubling.

Kind of like when you could set your screen resolution to a value that wasn't supported by your screen and it didn't reset automatically after 30 seconds.

(Tiny rick)

Well, it didn't seem to bother Juanita Martinez too much.

Over my head. Who is she?

Hiro's love interest in 'Snow Crash'.

Thanks. Damn, it's amazing that I forgot that.

There are examples in Peter Watts' work too. Siri in Blindsight, and Lianna in Echopraxia.

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