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[quote]When you die you die. Your consciousness is ended. So if you get shot in the brain or die of cancer the thing which gives you consciousness (your brain) is gone. What is left is a backup of what you were, but it is not a continuity of your consciousness. As far as a stack is concerned, at best it is the closest proximity of who you were, but it isn't "you".[/quote]
Doesn't seem to cause any problems in the show. If it did, then no one would bother with stacks or other types of copies.
Let's think about this in real world terms. If a person gets amnesia, would you say that, that's not the same person anymore, just because they don't remember their past (part of an old recording gets damaged)? They can still create new memories and are likely to act similarly, because you are born with specific personality traits (think Meyers Briggs). Sure with a clean slate, or part of your old memories gone, you might make other choices in the same type of situations (because you don't have the same experiences), but you are likely to do something similar, because that's a part of your inborn traits.
As long as the brain, or a cloned body with an exact copy of the brain, is intact, then it is still the same person. The "program" (biological in this case) just paused for a time, and anything that might have happened in between is lost, but the program will continue where it left off, when you resume it.
I just recalled that it wouldn't be possible to backup non stop. I mean you could in theory, but if you watch the series, then you'l notice that they are unable to do anything at the same time as they are transferring the copy (just standing there blinking).
Reileen, was a little bit more paranoid then Laurens Bancroft. She backed up every 24 hours instead of 48.
He told Ortega, that it was the one who said goodbye. So I'm thinking that it was the one that "died" in the sky place.
It still wouldn't be the same, it would only be a clone with no gap in the memory. Nothing wrong with that, since I don't believe in the idea of a soul.
Yes, X-Men has a training room in some of the comic books.
Why would that be a problem? Do you remember every second that you have lived? I surely don't... I have a lot of memories and knowledge, but don't always recollect how I got it. I might have a hunch, like I probably read it in a magazine ones or I watched it in a documentary, but that's a guess and I just don't know.
It's not mentioned in the series, but i imagine something like the Holodeck in Star Trek:
"The holodeck is depicted as an enclosed room in which objects and people are simulated by a combination of matter, beams and fields onto which holographic images are projected, which appear solid to the touch. This matter is known as "holomatter", and usually disintegrates when the virtual-reality program is ended."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodeck