digital clone of a person theme

A real person has been copied so that a facsimile of them now exists in a computer simulation.

13 total · 6 choice · 6 major · 1 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
blackmirror-specialx1	choice	Greta underwent a surgery that resulted in the creation of a digital clone of her stored within an egg-shaped object.
blackmirror2x01	choice	Martha communicated with an artificial intelligence imitating her deceased fiancée Ash.
blackmirror4x01	choice	Robert Daly used his coworkers' DNA to create sentient digital clones of them in a Star Trek-like space adventure game universe of his own design.
blackmirror4x06	choice	Condemned murderer Clayton Leigh was digitally cloned after his execution. A copy of Carrie's consciousness was implanted into an unused part of Jack's brain.
blackmirror7x06	choice	The story concerns a group of digital clones who found themselves trapped in a giant space MMORPG. Digital cloning had been outlawed because of the ethical concerns involved. As the characters were subjected to various forms of abuse, a central theme of the story is clearly to make the viewer think about the moral status of hypothetical digital humans.
movie: Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985)	choice	The contents of Edison's mind were uploaded to a computer and the entity the resulted became the television star Max Headroom.
as1985e2x12	major	John uploaded the contents of his mind to a computer.
blackmirror7x03	major	Virtual Dorothy was a simulation of the character in the film noir "Hotel Reverie", but also somehow had memories of the actress who'd originally played Dorothy.
blackmirror7x05	major	The story is premised on the use of a virtual reality device by which Phillip was taken inside his old memories, and conversed with a sentient digital clone of a girl that turned out to be his old flame's daughter.
movie: Archive (2020)	major	The Archive company was marketing a technology that enabled one to preserve a digital near-copy of their consciousness to life on after their bodily death.