what if my personal identity came into question theme
Someone experiences a situation that challenges their common sense notions of personhood. Examples include someone discovering they are a digital copy of somebody else and two people getting somehow combined into one person.
10 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tz1959e1x23 | choice | Arthur Curtis was severely disquieted when he suddenly found himself in a studio full of people who insisted that he was Gerry Raigan. |
| futurama6x01 | major | Questions were raised as to whether the android clones of Fry and Leela were fundamentally different in any way from the originals. |
| movie: Immortal (2004) | major | The film explores Nikopol having two selves: His ordinary self and the rapist self he became whenever Horus inhabited his body. |
| movie: Solaris (1968) | major | The viewer is made to ponder to what extent was the Harey duplicate that the Solaris planet ocean conjured up was the the same as the Harey who'd killed herself some years prior. In particular, a point was made about the Harey duplicate mirroring Kris' expectation of her. |
| movie: Solaris (1972) | major | The viewer is made to ponder to what extent was the Hari replica that the world ocean conjured up was the the same as the Hari who'd killed herself some years prior. |
| movie: Solaris (2002) | major | The viewer is made to ponder to what extent was the Rheya replica was the the same as the Rheya who'd killed herself some years prior. |
| theamericanshortstory03 | major | Spencer grappled with an imagined alter ego, the man who stayed and fought in the war. |
| tz1959e3x27 | major | David was made to wonder whether the person he thought he was was merely a delusional construct of his own mind. |
| tz2002e1x04 | major | In the end, Andrew was shocked to discover that he was merely a figment of Sondra's imagination. |
| movie: Multiplicity (1996) | minor | Doug and his first clone, named Two, briefly deliberated over who was the real Doug. |