Anyone feel completely free to use any parts of what I wrote here, because I am absolutely not interested in writing that story anymore.
does the second personality ever take physical control of your body? Can it physically go to work
Yet. It is fully in control of the body (except that it does not know about the original personality, and the original personality can pause them at any time). Maybe some of your colleagues at work are like this, you never know. Or even outside of the work… just like people enjoy spending their time watching TV, they can find it interesting to create the second personality even for their free time and just observe it from inside.
Speaking from outside of the story—this creates much more opportunities. Think about the impact on the whole society; anyone you meet anywhere could be a virtual personality.
What does it think it do during 16 hours of your uptime?
False memories. Your choice. You have an equivalent of full hypnotic power over them. To avoid too much work with programming them every day, a reasonable default choice would be to make them remember everything but think that they did it.
Can you directly communicate to your second personality?
I didn’t think about it. My first answer would be no, because that would ruin the illusion that they are the real thing. -- However, choose the option that gives you better story.
Think about the impact on the whole society; anyone you meet anywhere could be a virtual personality.
That doesn’t seem to imply much. It’s still some distinct personality. What should have an impact is the fact that now there are two personalities inhabiting a single body at different times: when you meet me at daytime, it’s really me, but when you meet me at night—that’s a different person. Unless I’ve borked my “sleep” schedule and that’s still me; then I might be not-me at some time during the day. That should… take some getting used to.
Also, doesn’t the body need sleep, only a (part of the) brain?
What does it think it do during 16 hours of your uptime?
False memories. Your choice. You have an equivalent of full hypnotic power over them. To avoid too much work with programming them every day, a reasonable default choice would be to make them remember everything but think that they did it.
I see. It doesn’t make sense to make those memories too false, though, or the reality will take increasingly more effort to cover up. Suppose, I decide to start going to gym and conceal it from my alter-ego. Suddenly they will notice that their body started to bulk up for no apparent reason.
Anyone feel completely free to use any parts of what I wrote here, because I am absolutely not interested in writing that story anymore.
Yet. It is fully in control of the body (except that it does not know about the original personality, and the original personality can pause them at any time). Maybe some of your colleagues at work are like this, you never know. Or even outside of the work… just like people enjoy spending their time watching TV, they can find it interesting to create the second personality even for their free time and just observe it from inside.
Speaking from outside of the story—this creates much more opportunities. Think about the impact on the whole society; anyone you meet anywhere could be a virtual personality.
False memories. Your choice. You have an equivalent of full hypnotic power over them. To avoid too much work with programming them every day, a reasonable default choice would be to make them remember everything but think that they did it.
I didn’t think about it. My first answer would be no, because that would ruin the illusion that they are the real thing. -- However, choose the option that gives you better story.
That doesn’t seem to imply much. It’s still some distinct personality. What should have an impact is the fact that now there are two personalities inhabiting a single body at different times: when you meet me at daytime, it’s really me, but when you meet me at night—that’s a different person. Unless I’ve borked my “sleep” schedule and that’s still me; then I might be not-me at some time during the day. That should… take some getting used to.
Also, doesn’t the body need sleep, only a (part of the) brain?
I see. It doesn’t make sense to make those memories too false, though, or the reality will take increasingly more effort to cover up. Suppose, I decide to start going to gym and conceal it from my alter-ego. Suddenly they will notice that their body started to bulk up for no apparent reason.