The Ghost of RubangB on 09 December 2009
Yeah the whole consciousness/identity/solipsism plot is really cliche now. The philosophical ideas have been around for thousands of years, and it's been written about in several sci-fi books for several decades, but didn't get super-popular with the mainstream pop culture until Evangelion in '95, Serial Experiments Lain in '98, and especially The Matrix in '99.
