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Comment by dmd

15 hours ago

Greg Egan wrote an entire (fabulous) book about exactly that, "Permutation City".

Diaspora is mind-blowing, yet highly improbable and speculative, even though carefully threaded to sound plausible on all levels. The whole introdus idea and simulation from VM perspective sounds incredible, but I don't think the body runs a simulation of anything. It is something else.