[michaelbuckbee]

This is literally a Black Mirror episode -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

Synopsis: "The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it. "Be Right Back" had two sources of inspiration: the question of whether to delete a dead friend's phone number from one's contacts, and the idea that Twitter posts could be made by software mimicking dead people."

[knolax]

I understand the value of providing hypothetical situations, but the constant mention of Black Mirror episodes with very little other substance here is getting tiring. Without having seen Black Mirror, that synopsis doesn't add much to the conversation other than "somebody made a tvshow/movie about that". Other than the fact that a similar situation was explored, what new conclusion did the episode reach that warrants mentioning?

[NetOpWibby]

Mainly that it was creepy and the widower realized she didn’t really want a dead boyfriend/android thing.

[dnautics]

It's an old idea. The premise of caprica was that you could upload your experiences and that would reconstitute your soul (or would it?).

That's a mass media instantiation of the premise of I am a strange loop, by douglas Hofstadter, which is to be honest a tome lamenting the passing of his wife