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The Sci Fi version of the Spirit Advisor. Death is a real bummer. Fortunately, in the future, we'll find a way around it. Using ScienceTM, we will be able to squirrel away the mind of a dead or dying person in a computer, and digitally recreate them later as a Projected Man with holograms. They may not be thrilled by this, but as they're dead, they don't get any say in the matter. Usually overlaps with Intangible Man. If Cyberspace is involved, they will be corporeal in that plane. Compare with Digitized Hacker, which is a mind that has integrated with the internet.

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  • The Sci Fi version of the Spirit Advisor. Death is a real bummer. Fortunately, in the future, we'll find a way around it. Using ScienceTM, we will be able to squirrel away the mind of a dead or dying person in a computer, and digitally recreate them later as a Projected Man with holograms. They may not be thrilled by this, but as they're dead, they don't get any say in the matter. Usually overlaps with Intangible Man. If Cyberspace is involved, they will be corporeal in that plane. Compare with Digitized Hacker, which is a mind that has integrated with the internet.
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  • The Sci Fi version of the Spirit Advisor. Death is a real bummer. Fortunately, in the future, we'll find a way around it. Using ScienceTM, we will be able to squirrel away the mind of a dead or dying person in a computer, and digitally recreate them later as a Projected Man with holograms. They may not be thrilled by this, but as they're dead, they don't get any say in the matter. Usually overlaps with Intangible Man. If Cyberspace is involved, they will be corporeal in that plane. In series with a Cool Starship, it's particularly common for a Virtual Ghost to end up running the ship, especially if they are female. Interestingly a Virtual Ghost is technically just as much an AI as a robot, but even though they are essentially a computer with a preprogrammed human personality and (sometimes) the memories of a deceased person they will probably be treated different from other robots and computers. Whether the character is the same person as the dead character, or merely a piece of software that has been written to thinks it is, is a famous philosophical conundrum... that will almost certainly not be brought up in the series in question. A Virtual Ghost can end up practically reincarnated if made out of Hard Light. Sister Trope to Living Memory. See also Hologram Projection Imperfection. Compare with Digitized Hacker, which is a mind that has integrated with the internet. Examples of Virtual Ghost include:
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