/lit/ - Literature

What are some of the best books discussing human consciousness?

I was thinking about what makes us conscious and wondered if we would ever be able to upload ourselves to a virtual reality.

If we did, would it be a copy/paste where our current selves are left behind while our copies live on in virtual space? Or would it be a cut/paste, where we wake up in a new virtual world where everything is a simulation and you would never die from old age or health problems.

This shit is keeping me up at night, please send help. Surely someone has written about this.

>guy fulfills his dream and goes to japan to become a manga author
>gives his all to create a fantastic story
>meager reception
>goes on for a while and hes getting depressed
>signs on with a big company and creates some bullshit he knows will be popular
>it gets rave reviews and everyone loves it
>drives him further down the hole
>tries to finish his original but no one cares about it
>works for years on the shitty one and popularity is falling
>ends up killing himself and leaving both mangas unfinished

thoughts?

Writing a 5 page critical analysis on Shakespeare's Hamlet and I need help lol. I didn't really understand the book as far as Hamlet feigning madness or actually being mad.