Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

throopw@xxxxxxxxx (Wayne Throop) writes:
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.

Not quite the same thing. You still have a point where you have an original
and a copy that have a seperate existence - meat me now has a mechanical
twin brother, but *I* am not the one in the machine.

The point I'm trying to make is that my consciousness's world line has to
never break. if it does, what emerges after the break is somebody else that
thinks they're me, and to anyone else *is* me. But I'm dead.

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.

It would definitely be a good way to augment memories - by suppressing the
meat part's creation of new memories, and storing them in the machine
instead, with the machine responding like the old meat memory did. I can
see something like that becoming practical eventually, moreso than simply
plopping a brain on a scanner and reading it out. Add on the ability to
'remember' things learned by somebody else, and you've got the makings of
a singularity.

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.

I need to check out that book - thanks! *
--
* PV something like badgers--something like lizards--and something
like corkscrews.
.

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