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Author: intastiel

Oct 10th 2017 at 1:04:00 PM

* Happens recursively in ''Literature/PermutationCity'':
** People can make "Copies" of themselves through BrainUploading, which can survive them in a virtual-reality environment.  However, the original person still dies normally, and the quality of the Copy's existence depends on how much processing power their trust fund can buy for them.
** Paul Durham's unorthodox beliefs about quantum ontology and TheMultiverse lead him to believe that a simulation can become real on the basis of its mathematical self-consistency, so he runs an infinitely self-organizing "Garden of Eden" model for a few seconds and then deletes it.  Somehow, this actually creates "Permutation City", an alternate reality that creates itself according to the model, wherein the founding Copies are each {{Reality Warper}}s in their own, increasingly vast, domains.
** After a drastically bungled FirstContact scenario causes Permutation City to unravel in a PuffOfLogic, the Copies of Durham and Maria seed a new universe to escape into, making it a sort of artificial after-after-afterlife.