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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[The Culture]The sci-fi civilization​ of the Culture allows for mind uploading of people to computers and perfect cloning without destroying originals. How does the Culture decide which owns the property of the original, the original or the clone?

And if you are familiar with the Culture, I am sure you were rushing to respond that, aha! They both just get identical copies of everything in there is no conflict! To which I say aha! You are wrong!


There are two assets that can't be truly replicated.


1.  Handmade objects.  Given the goodlike powers that the AIs that run the Culture possess, they can make true copies of anything. However, just like in our real world, there must be some people who place a value on handmade artisanal goods. Be it food, art, paintings furniture etc. There must be some in the Culture which find special significance and value in originals of things made with great personal effort.


2.  Living space. Living space is unique and can't simply be copied. Well, a home and every object within it could be copied down to the last electron, but its position compared to the rest of the world is unique and can't be copied.


So who gets the original stuff?  The original or the copy?



**BONUS QUESTION!** Since the only rule that the Culture seems to have is you can't unconsentually harm others, what happens if you steal the possessions of others?  Well, the Minds can simply make copies of physical possessions. But what happens if someone moves into your home and refuses to leave? Will the Minds and others do anything besides shun you?
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I imagine that if the two copies were operating in the same ship at the same time, they would simply have a sit-down together and decide between themselves who exactly got what. 

Any conflict between them would quickly come to an end because they'd be the laughing-stock of their ship's community for however long it went on.  

The Culture enforces social norms by public participation, so there'd be a ton of mockery going around the ship both in physical space and on their version of the Internet. 

Eventually the two copies would feel so harassed that they'd reach an agreement just to get everyone else to stop making fun of them. 

**BONUS ANSWER:**

If someone were to move into your home and refuse to leave, what would likely happen first is that a friend of yours would make a big public display of inviting you to live in their house, which you would accept.

While you're crashing on their couch, everyone else on your ship would do whatever they thought would make living in your house unbearable for your squatter. 

Maybe your neighbors would constantly play loud music at 3 AM and make your "street" the party street...

Maybe the ship's Mind would deliberately make the WiFi lag and disconnect from the TV at random while the squatter is trying to stream a movie...

Maybe somebody would decide to open an exotic foods cafeteria right next door, and give out nothing but that one particular fruit that smells like raw sewage (I think it's called durian). 

There's a thousand different things that people could do without directly infringing upon the basic rights of your squatter (since that's obviously forbidden). 

Like in the previous example, they'd just keep doing them until your squatter felt so harassed that they'd move out of your house and publically apologize to you for all the trouble they put you through, just so that people would stop messing with them.