Kindly Necromancers

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Whether it cares or lot, that body retains memories of the person it was because it still has skills of the person it was.

Does it? When did we specify the exact zombie model we're using? I can think of several reasonably plausible zombie models, and which one we're using matters for the ethical questions:

1. The zombie is the necromancer's remote control puppet; it can do nothing that the necromancer cannot do.
2. The zombie is animated by something nonhuman with no connection to the original personality of the body.
3. The zombie is animated by something nonhuman that to some degree imitates the deceased person.
4. The zombie is animated by the spirit of the deceased person.

To jump into THS doomthread territory, you can think of them as equivalent to the following:

1. The corpse was turned into a bioshell that is teleoperated.
2. The corpse was turned into a bioshell that is being run by an NAI, LAI, or SAI with an off the shelf personality.
3. The corpse was turned into a bioshell that is being run by an NAI, LAI, or SAI shadow of the original personality.
4. The corpse was turned into a bioshell that is being run by the original person's Ghost.