Novelette
Number of words : 12300
Percent of complex words : 12.7
Average syllables per word : 1.6
Average words per sentence : 12.3
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 10.0
Flesch : 58.3
Flesch-Kincaid : 8.2
PEOPLE
Paul Durham
Experimenter with Copies of himself.
Dali and Giger
Painters and artists.
Martin Sandover
Former US President and crook.
Tsang Chao and Michael Nyman and Philip Glass
Composers.
Elizabeth
Paul's girlfriend.
Cleopatra or Ramses II
Ancient Egyptian rulers.
Rembrandt and Picasso
Painters and artists.
TECHNOLOGY
Copy
Computer representation of a human created by scanning their brain.
Telepresence
Remote operation of robots.
CONCEPTS
Strong AI Hypothesis
Declares that consciousness is a property of certain algorithms, independent of their implementation.
Gaia
Earth deity.
MEDIA
Principia
A mathematical tome.
Mishima
A Glass composition.
David
A statue by Michaelangelo.
PLACES
Canberra
Capital of Australia.
Sydney
Capital of NSW.
New York
American city.
ORGANISATIONS
Hitachi Supercomputer Facility
In Tokyo. One of the processors Durham uses in his experiments.
PLOT
Paul Durham is creating copies of himself by brain scanning to see if running them via massively distributed processing results in something equivalent to reality. And it doesn't matter where they are run, geographically. Being programs, they can also be run at varying speeds. The Dust Theory.
His girlfriend Elizabeth doesn't like what he is doing, and suggests if he is going to inflict this on Copies, he should undergo it himself, and she helps him set things up so that he thinks he is a copy in a simulation.
5 out of 5
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