The Terminal Experiment

To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. The first has all knowledge of physical existence edited out, to simulate life after death. The second is without knowledge of aging or death, to simulate immortality. The third is unmodified, a control. Now they are free. One is a killer. Dr. Peter Hobson invents a machine that detects a brain pattern that leaves the body after death, a pattern many believe is a soul. In order to test their theories on immortality and life after death, Hobson and his friend Sarkar Muhammed create three electronic simulations of Hobson's own personality. When people Hobson had a grudge against begin to die, he and Sarkar must try to find out which is responsible. But all three simulations – two modified, one a "control" – escape Sarkar's computer, into the Internet and the World Wide Web. The book won the 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. Sawyer received a writer's reserve grant from the Ontario Arts Council in 1993 in support of his writing the novel. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Experiment) Wikipedia To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson created three electronic simulations of his own personality. The first has all memory of physical existence edited out. The second is without knowledge of aging or death. The third is unmodified. But now all three of them have escaped from Hobson's computer into the worldwide electronic matrix-- and one of them is a killer To test his theories of immortality, Dr. Peter Hobson creates three electronic clones of himself, who escape from his computer into the international electronic matrix, where one of them begins to kill. Original. Dr. Peter Hobson has created a monster, three of them in fact, trying to test the theories of immortality and life after death Sandra Philo probe the memories of Peter Hobson.