kilemall
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Guess I approach these things simultaneously from a techie direction and a gameplay direction, and where they intersect is where I likely want to be.
The QND answer I get from a short run-through on wafertech is that the more intrusive and thorough a copy or insertion, the more compatibility and 'changes since' would be an issue, and it hasn't been an ubiquitous tech before else the nature of society would be different, so the techie challenges are why it isn't.
Example, a copy of a person in old age is going to be capturing the state of their mind as they are in a less then optimal physical and endocrinological state.
You put this mind into a freshly grown healthy version of the same person, and there will be less 'rejection' then say someone else, but the physical hardware is naturally different then the source brain, not to mention all the rest of the squishy chemicals and bodily functions.
So there would be mismatches for say we call it 'brain cell addressing', emotional reactions, and likely a host of involuntary coding the wafer would have to have to capture autonomic and movement functions.
For situations where one only has the wafer, there would likely have to be an editing process where the loading is adjusted to work with the differences inherent in the clone.
IMO there should be the possibility of madness or failure/rejection. That alone might make it less palatable as several clones have to be created to deal with failure, and some terminations.
Skill wafers on the other hand are less intrusive or simpler.
They either act as a natural knowledge feed like reaching for a manual you are familiar with, or imposing movement on your system with auto-adjustment for your body's neuromuscular interaction parameters (something already coded to a standard wafer API that was generated individually when the implants went in) without intruding on deep mental or bodily functions.
Another option I just thought of might help the process, but with different costs and problems.
You could have a sync-up, a live transfer between the original and the clone.
That way, the original knows EXACTLY what the clone gets and is thinking, adjustments can be made live from the original right there, the crazy can be avoided or dealt with immediately, the clone likely is on board with the process if he knows he gets to continue after the original is gone, and the swap is either done right then (the original gets killed) or the clone goes on ice awaiting a backup call.
Costly, less current backup, takes time and vulnerability that may be difficult or dangerous for the original to risk.
Bottom line, whichever way your wafer OTU/IMTU goes, unless you want to postulate an immortal society and the effects therein, you are going to want it to cost as much or more then anagathics and carry risks of a technical, legal, social, medical and/or personal nature.
The QND answer I get from a short run-through on wafertech is that the more intrusive and thorough a copy or insertion, the more compatibility and 'changes since' would be an issue, and it hasn't been an ubiquitous tech before else the nature of society would be different, so the techie challenges are why it isn't.
Example, a copy of a person in old age is going to be capturing the state of their mind as they are in a less then optimal physical and endocrinological state.
You put this mind into a freshly grown healthy version of the same person, and there will be less 'rejection' then say someone else, but the physical hardware is naturally different then the source brain, not to mention all the rest of the squishy chemicals and bodily functions.
So there would be mismatches for say we call it 'brain cell addressing', emotional reactions, and likely a host of involuntary coding the wafer would have to have to capture autonomic and movement functions.
For situations where one only has the wafer, there would likely have to be an editing process where the loading is adjusted to work with the differences inherent in the clone.
IMO there should be the possibility of madness or failure/rejection. That alone might make it less palatable as several clones have to be created to deal with failure, and some terminations.
Skill wafers on the other hand are less intrusive or simpler.
They either act as a natural knowledge feed like reaching for a manual you are familiar with, or imposing movement on your system with auto-adjustment for your body's neuromuscular interaction parameters (something already coded to a standard wafer API that was generated individually when the implants went in) without intruding on deep mental or bodily functions.
Another option I just thought of might help the process, but with different costs and problems.
You could have a sync-up, a live transfer between the original and the clone.
That way, the original knows EXACTLY what the clone gets and is thinking, adjustments can be made live from the original right there, the crazy can be avoided or dealt with immediately, the clone likely is on board with the process if he knows he gets to continue after the original is gone, and the swap is either done right then (the original gets killed) or the clone goes on ice awaiting a backup call.
Costly, less current backup, takes time and vulnerability that may be difficult or dangerous for the original to risk.
Bottom line, whichever way your wafer OTU/IMTU goes, unless you want to postulate an immortal society and the effects therein, you are going to want it to cost as much or more then anagathics and carry risks of a technical, legal, social, medical and/or personal nature.
