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protip: you can’t cheat death and no one is coming back

With people toying around with cloning. With Elon (and others) toying around with 'accessing the brain'. I wouldn't be surprised if in 100-200 years from now the "Altered Carbon" (nice SciFi series) becomes reality.

(and now we know where Disney will be investing) :)

Having a clone seems a lot closer to having a child or sibling than cheating death. If somebody is survived by their identical twin, we don't say the dead one is still alive.

In the Altered Carbon books/TV series, people can transfer their consciousness into new bodies to cheat death. That makes the issue of who is the same person more complicated than simple biological cloning.

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