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My favorite books about mind emulation:

* "Fall, Or Dodge in Hell" by Neil Stephenson [1]

* "Permutation City" by Greg Egan [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PXM4VMD/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Permutation-City-Greg-Egan-ebook/dp/B...

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Whole Brain Emulation Roadmap http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Reports/2008-3.pdf

The Age of Em https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198754620/

Thumbs up for "The Age of Em". A nice example of how to assume a technology and work out economic consequences. Hanson goes into some good detail and includes physical constraints, emergent properties like relative time elapsed for simulated minds when transferring between locations and such.

Yes, "Fall" was really great! It was after reading it that I decided I didn't want to emulate my mind anymore. :)

I really loved Permutation City, and loved the beginning of Fall, but man it felt like Fall just turned into a really hard slog after a certain point. I have definitely enjoyed some of Neal Stephenson's other novels too, even slower-paced ones like Anathem, but for some reason Fall just didn't do it for me.

I agree that the middle of the novel was dragging, but after a while, the story was picking up speed again for me.

Stephenson's early novels suffered from weak endings, IMHO. His newer ones (Fall, Seveneves) suffer from bloated midsections).

And for games, SOMA is probably the best example.

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