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The 6th Day
2000 · Film · 123 min
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
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Blade Runner, as it was the first one I saw that was about the meaning of memories and beliefs.
I actually liked The 6th Day when it comes to ideas of our "natural" view on identity and ownership of individual assets etc.
Matrix, of course, for its search for reality/truth behind ones inherited perceptions, no matter what consequences (there are more ideas in the movies, though).
Youtube Movies is such a wonderful product, it's crazy how I can't pay them $10/month and watch whatever I want in their ubiquitous apps. Even the comments come into play when watching a movie, it's fun to read jokes or some detail I missed. Like look, I can quickly watch The 6th Day a perfect Saturday 10AM movie while the kids are about to wake up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdnX-qQIulw
But because of greed all the content is spread across many many services, each with their own warty app. What a shame!
Just a few days ago, I thought to myself... "We are in 2023 but still no smart mirrors" like in "The 6th Day" Arnold Schwarzenegger film. ^_^ Very cool project.
Here's a list I stole from Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-films-have-the-lowest-average-shot-length-ASL
ASL 1.55 - Doomsday (2008) : 4052 shots over 105 minutes
ASL 1.72 - Transporter 3 (2008) : 3360 shots over 96 minutes
ASL 1.73 - Domino (2005) : 4046 shots over 116 minutes
ASL 1.83 - Quantum of Solace (2008) : 3198 shots over 98 minutes
ASL 1.84 - Crank: High Voltage (2009) : 2718 shots over 84 minutes
ASL 1.92 - Transporter 2 (2005) : 2524 shots over 81 minutes
ASL 2.01 - Band of Ninja (1967) : 3424 shots over 114 minutes
ASL 2.01 - Moulin Rouge! (2001) : 3594 shots over 120 minutes
ASL 2.03 - Gamer (2009) : 2502 shots over 84 minutes
ASL 2.03 - The 6th Day (2000) : 3418 shots over 116 minutes
ASL 2.08 - Hot Fuzz (2007) : 3304 shots over 115 minutes
ASL 2.10 - Dark City (1998) : 2982 shots over 104 minutes
ASL 2.15 - Armageddon (1998) : 4025 shots over 145 minutes
ASL 2.17 - The Transporter (2002) : 2420 shots over 87 minutes
ASL 2.17 - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) : 2910 shots over 105 minutes
I’m reminded of the aircraft in The 6th Day movie.
https://youtu.be/7nqo_3kyw8M
I firmly believe that the brain is a form of quantum computing. I also believe that moving the consciousness from a 90yo close to death to a cloned body containing a newly grown brain or then later on a silicon based one will be possible in the future.
The best TV show that encapsulated this was Travellers[0]. A damn good show which was cancelled just when things were getting interesting.
I would say it's possible by entangling the particles from the source brain to the recipient one. Once completed the original source is destroyed, so it's effectively a move and not a copy.
There's also the 6th day movie [1]. Imagine being able to spin up multiple copies of yourself and 100x your own output? I believe that will also be possible in the future. Probably outlawed due to lots of ethical reasons. But... I'd like to think why not? Me[1] lives on earth. Me[2] lives in Mars, Me[3] lives on a moon in the asteroid belt. Me[4] is currently navigating out of the solar system. Since all the brains are entangled. I'd know everything in an instant.
How do deal with that is another story. Unless I'm AI at that point, which means the collective are all just a bunch of VMs anyway :P
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99LZwZmSoNo [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VP44dGIi9c
I think as far as current tech goes, even if somebody gets 100% cloned, their mind (data in the brain) would still be different. That of course is when The 6th Day[0] (Brain data copy + clone) will never become a reality.
Here is a video about cloning dogs you may interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmHYUvmiXQI
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216/
This may immediately remind you of the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_6th_Day
I have seen it. There was also a movie with arnold schwartzenneger in it the 6th day where they clone people to replace them when they die, or before they die. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_19
Some consequences of unintended cloning are explored in the movie "The 6th Day".
But if some "transportation" is required, it may be easier and cheaper to just send information, and to use the energy and matter found at the destination to build the copy.
Ethically, it may be preferable to keep the original copy, even if legally it is a problem. But ethics should prevail on legality.
Is Startrek civilization more legalist than ethic?
Otherwise, what we'd really want, is not teletransportation, but updating of space coordinates without using any transportation.
I can't believe I'm bringing this up, but the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "The 6th Day" really matches my views on the subject, and also matches your views.
(Obvious spoilers for the movie)
In the movie Arnold is cloned, wakes up later, and goes about to find out what's going on. At one point he finds out HE is the clone! Back to our discussion. From the point of view of the Copy, the procedure was successful - the consciousnesses was transferred to the machine and the copy continues existence. From his POV he does wake up in the computer after the procedur. For you, though, it's a copy that wakes up. Perhaps your brain is destroyed during the upload process and you stop to exist. For the copy you (that is, him) continue to exist and avoid brain death. If a scientist asks you, "Was the upload successful?", you (the original) will answer "No". The copy you will answer "Yes".
People don't want them to grow a clone from their DNA and then having the clone replace them like in that the 6th day schwarznegger movie.