Warning: This content contains spoilers for season 1 of Severance. Severance is a new TV series on Apple TV+ that takes place, according to the show creator, in a “vaguely now-ish” timeline, but with technology that, as of the time of writing this article is, thank god, purely science fiction. In this show, a new procedure called “severance” has been invented, enabling the corporation Lumon Industries to “sever” a person’s consciousness so that they cannot retain memories of their work-self, (referred to as their “innie”) when they are at home and cannot retain memories of their home identity (referred to as their “outtie”) when they are at work. This medical procedure effectively creates two separate consciousnesses that operate within one body.
This is similar to the premise of the anime Sword Art Online Alicization (season 3+).
Though there they eventually copy human consciousness ("fluctlite") at birth into AI, because humans that have an existing personality go mad and self destruct in seconds upon learning they are the copy and stuck in a machine.
This is similar to the premise of the anime Sword Art Online Alicization (season 3+).
Though there they eventually copy human consciousness ("fluctlite") at birth into AI, because humans that have an existing personality go mad and self destruct in seconds upon learning they are the copy and stuck in a machine.