I found this episode to be extremely disturbing. To find out you're not real, but a clone. And then find out you're some sukkas slave in his virtual fantasy world. Unnerving.
shareAlmost as if the point of the show is to be disturbing.
shareDon’t be too concerned.
While it may, technically, be somehow possible to clone you into a video game with a sample of your DNA, that clone with just be an empty vessel. Your DNA does not contain your personality and memories, just the blueprint of your biology.
None of those people on the Callister would have any functional memories of their life outside that simulation.
Other than that, it’s a great episode!
Well. Actually that's kind of a "duh". I was just going with the premise of the show.
shareWhite Christmas and Black Museum both fall into this category as well. If there were a way to transfer or clone your consciousness into a simulation (the DNA thing is silly, but some other way), then that would have terrifying consequences.
Mostly, because those running or using the simulation would not view you as human, but rather just "computer code" and all manner of indignities could be justified. Add to that the idea that you would live forever trapped in that existence with no hope of release through death and it's enough to bend the brain.
It would turn into a Westworld type situation
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