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This episode of Pic.Think:TV features Sy, Sammie, Gladys & Raveen and focuses on season 1 & 2 of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. The discussion begins by hypothetically considering whether or not the right price offered could permanently dissuade us from our personal use of black mirror technology. Through this idea we explore the pros and cons of modern day technology. The discussion progresses to our review of the introductory seasons of Black Mirror. From these two seasons we consider three things: which examples of black mirror technology are most likely due to come into existence; which examples we're most apprehensive about coming into existence; and, conversely, which ones we're anticipating the most. After this, we unpack the philosophical problem concerning personal identity by applying thought experiments, such as Jullian Baggini's "Beam Me Up" (The Pig that Wants to be Eaten, 2005) and Ancient Greek Historian Plutarch's "Ship of Theseus" (Theseus Paradox), to Black Mirror episodes such as Be Right Back (S2, Ep.1). The discussion concludes by using the episodes Be Right Back (S2, Ep.1) and White Christmas (S2, Ep.4) to ask whether it is possible to clone human consciousness. We question whether this copied consciousness can be considered identical to the original human consciousness, or at the very least whether this copy can legitimately be considered a person.