[cancer|personal] Digital ghosts and virtual me

[jaylake]

Yesterday I saw my therapist. We talked about a number of issues. My life moves very fast these days in more than one sense. One subject was the whole question of me having both a documentarist and an archivist. As I said to them, this is the water I swim in. I don't think about it much. But those are in fact both very weird things

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[wyld_dandelyon]

Physically, they could create a time-delayed identical twin, I suppose. Having naturally-cloned nephews, I can assure you that is not the same as recreating you. The boys have always had distinct personalities, even growing in the same womb and growing up in identical circumstances.

[msconduct]

I think your genome being open source would be fantastic. It's depressing watching people lock up more and more genes under patents and I'm sure an entire genome would be of immense use to researchers.

[chris_gerrib]

Jay - you are the most open person I know, so why not open up your genome?

That's actually a serious question. I mean, there's no downside to you and yours.

[cathshaffer]

vJay is such a cool idea. People could donate emails, too. (not to be read but as a source of dialogue) I know I have a collection of them.

[a_cubed]

Fred is inherent in the corpus of published work, though :-) (and unpublished fiction)