we're learning about theories of the self in philosophy class and it turns out they're all about hal. i brought him up when we were discussing whether it is perhaps having your memories that makes you You. we wondered then maybe if now there was someone else who had your memories, that qualifies them to be you as well, and if there are two yous, then perhaps neither of them is you. the punchline of this is that my professor then said "In that case maybe duplication is a strange form of suicide" and i had to stare at the wall for a while about that one. guys there's like. whole real philosophers who spend their whole times thinking about Lil Hal Concepts. you can even read about them. they told me to read A dialogue on personal identity and immortality by john perry and little hal is in here.