What will happen if death is no longer real?
How much of our humanity is tied up with our mortality? That’s the big question that Netflix’s Altered Carbon asks.
Set over 300 years into the future and based on Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk noir novel of the same name, death has become a thing of the past and immortality the currency of the day.
Humans can now quite literally shrug off the mortal coil and take on another body, or “sleeve”, once the current one dies or becomes damaged. Consciousness is stored in a piece of metal called the “stack”, located at the base of the brain. As long as the stack remains intact, the person can be transferred into a new sleeve.
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