Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

:: How about the stepwise approach? Some computer equipment is put into
:: your brain, say between the hemispheres. Over time, this equipment
:: duplicates, and takes over the neurological activity that the brain
:: tissue in that area does.

: "Default User" <defaultuserbr@xxxxxxxxx>
: It's an interesting question, and one I can't answer right away. I'll
: note that I read a story or novel in the past couple years which had
: that premise. I don't remember the title.

Old Man's War had essentially that approach. You get injected with
nanomachines that map your brain activity, and eventually allow it to
be read out in enough detail to provide you a mirrored process; like
a mirrored disk, or mirrored CPUs, where everything gets stored (or
processed) in two different places. Then, just like can be done for
swapping out disks without ever taking the machine down or the data
offline, you just spin down the old disk/brain/processor/whatnot,
and disconnect it.

In the case of a computer disk it's quite interesting. You plug in a new
disk, mirror it to the old one, wait a bit, then disconnect (and if you
wish, discard) the old disk. People can still be reading and writing the
data throughout the entire procedure. No harm, no foul, no downtime.
In Old Man's War, this is done with a spare body, and the subject is
thinking and perceiving and interacting throughout the entire process.
Now just suppose the "body" is virtual, and Bob's your uncle, you been
uploaded.

See also Anevka, in Girl Genius.

You know, the problem with situations like that, is that villians like
Lucretzia and Tarvek never seem to get an adequate comuppance. Or perhaps
I mean smackdownance.

( What, you think Tarvek wasn't a villian? I don't like him.
I don't-like-him a lot. ) ( Or maybe, "isn't", since he was only
shot with a non-lethal round... oh, well, I suppose he's going to
show up by and by, and try to do some 'splainin' to Agatha. I hope
she's appropriately unsympathetic. Maybe it'll learn him a lesson. )
( But I digress. )


Wayne Throop throopw@xxxxxxxxx http://sheol.org/throopw
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