Michael glared at her. 'You're not helping. Look, Jophiel, we need to collapse your Virtual projection before we begin the review. You know that's the protocol. I've - we've - done it many times before…It's time.'
Jophiel knew that. After all, he shared all Poole's memories - all the way back through dozens of projections before. But now it was his turn. The infolding of his memories into the original, the loss of his identity. Had those other copies of him, any of them, fought to stay independent - to stay, in whatever sense, alive?
-Xeelee: Redemption, Ch. 8