Egan suggests that the mathematical data constituting a consciousness exists regardless of the order in which the calculations are performed. Even if a simulation is broken into pieces, scattered across time, and computed in a chaotic, non-continuous way ("dust"), the experience of that conscious self still occurs. Key Narrative Features
Permutation City (1994) Author: Greg Egan Genre: Hard SF / Post-Cyberpunk The Premise: Life as a Copy Permutation City
Permutation City is available in audible format and is a 1994 John W. Campbell Award winner . If you'd like, I can: the three main plot lines Explain the Dust Theory in simpler terms Egan suggests that the mathematical data constituting a
Discuss the between the Copies and the originals scattered across time