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Compare with [[Digitized Hacker]], which is a mind that has integrated with the internet.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' has a field day with this one. The first episode starts with two characters killing themselves to achieve this, and soon after the [[Mind Screw|Id of one character]], a scientist and the recreated image (see ''[[Ghost in The Shell]]'' above) of a third character's paternal aspects become [[Virtual Ghost|virtual ghosts]]. [[It Got Worse|Then it gets complicated...]]
* {{spoiler|Tieria Erde}} in ''[[Gundam 00]]'' [[The Movie]].
** George Glenn in ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'' is a semi-example. [[
* After his death near the end of ''[[Twentieth Century Boys|20th Century Boys]]'', {{spoiler|Manjoume}} appears in ''21st Century Boys'' as one of these in the Tomodachi Land [[Simulation Game]] bonus stage.
* The AI versions of Harold Hoerwick in .hack//Sign. They're nowhere near as advanced as most other versions on this page (and rightly so; this series is set 20MinutesIntoTheFuture) and tend to only repeat a few cryptic lines at a time, but the information inevitably proves crucial. He also appears in the four [[PS 2]] games set slightly afterward.
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* Shade of Garth Nix's ''Shade's Children''. Also, the Leamington personality from the University, though it was much less refined.
* Used in many of Peter F. Hamilton's novels. There was usually a [[Hive Mind]] made up of these ghosts, and this method is considered a [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence|viable alternative to death]].
* A future human society in [[Stephen Baxter]]'s ''[[Manifold Space]]'' makes use of "limited-sentience projections" as messengers. Initially Nemoto appears several times via more ordinary holographic telepresence, making for an unexpected [[What Measure Is a Non
* The fairly transhumanist novel ''Newton's Wake'' has virtual ghosts as self-aware beings who happen to be susceptible to the same kinds of access restrictions and file system commands as regular bunches of data. Some characters treat owning and utilizing virtual ghosts as slavery. Others test the defenses of computer systems by throwing copies of ghosts at them.
{{quote| "The uploads replicate and develop relationships. Most of them go very bad. You sometimes get an entire virtual planet of four billion people devoted to building prayer wheels in an attempt at a denial of service attack on God."}}
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* Lumi in ''[[Child of Eden]]''.
* Ma3a in ''[[Tron|Tron 2.0]]'' straddles the lines of this, [[Brain Uploading]], and [[Interface With a Familiar Face]]. {{spoiler|Dr. Lora Baines-Bradley was killed by being partially digitized with her laser. Whether by accident or design, the part of her left in cyberspace was compiled with the AI project she and Alan were working on, creating Ma3a.}}
* Clay Kaczmarek {{spoiler|''[[The Obi
* In ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'', Cave Johnson's dying wish is to get a [[Brain Uploading]]. [[Subverted Trope|Ironically, he dies before they could do it]], so they go with his back-up dying wish: apply the [[Brain Uploading]] to {{spoiler|1=Caroline, AKA GlaDOS, who ends up becoming more [[Mission Control Is Off Its Meds]] than [[Spirit Advisor]] [[Virtual Ghost]].}}
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