[ExI] Severance

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> What I find interesting is the aspect of personal identity it raises. Are the two people, with different memory sets, different individuals?

What I've read suggests this is a hard "yes", and the worker-selves
are treated as slaves with no rights because those rights are retained
exclusively by the non-worker-selves.  One can imagine legal
challenges arising, wherein each of the individuals is entitled to
full bodily autonomy but they only have one body between them.

> When one of the workers is fired, is that equivalent to an execution of a unique person?

Again, apparently a hard "yes" according to the series.  This is among
the reasons why it is easy to imagine that certain corporate overlords
would favor this technology.

> The series even raises the question of whether they have different souls, one of which could go to heaven while the other one does not.

Or hell, or reincarnation - potentially even reincarnation during the
other one's continued life.