Kerry Bowman

Other psychologists are thinking that this is, it's kind of a liminal space where you can't move on because you're still interacting with the person.

And there's something also, no matter how much data you have, there's something very artificial about it because they're not alive.

And they're not alive in January of 2026, and they're not interacting with the world that we're living in right now.

So there's something very artificial about it.

So yes, it may have some benefits, but boy, it's really got a lot of risk because it's not a real interaction.

So I don't see a consent problem with that.

And a lot of people don't take the consent problem seriously, but I do, and I think it's very important.

So I think there's a big ethical hurdle that you have reached.

Whether it is good for the surviving person, whether they are gonna be able to work things out

or whether they're going to be frozen in some kind of grief cycle.

We just don't know.

And, you know, not all people are the same.

Now, look, here's another thing, David, that's very important with these emerging technologies is, you know, you can edit them.

So, you know, if you had a complicated relationship with someone and there was often cycles of conflict, you can just edit that right out, right?

It's gone.

So you're really not

interacting in a lot of ways with the same person anymore.

So you could argue, you know, I had a nightmare situation getting along with my mother and now that she's gone and there's this grief, but I've worked out all this conflict.

But how long and how deep is it?

Is it real?