From: Louis Newstrom (louisnews@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 06:50:49 MDT
I know that the original Star Trek series had some "upload" scenarios.
(I don't remember titles so I'll describe them.)
A scientist (Nurse Chapel's fiance?) transferred his intelligence into a robot,
rather than die on a frozen planet.
An ancient race (Sargon et al.) stored their minds in machines when their
planet was dying. They borrowed the crew's bodies in the express purpose of
building robot bodies for themselves.
In "Mudd's women" it was said that people could tranfer their bodies to robots
and live for thousands of years.
The upside was that these are all in mainstream (cult) culture. The downside
is that they portrayed them as imperfect procedures. Nurse Chapel's fiance
lost all emotion. Sargon's companions decided they would rather steal living
bodies instead of being trapped in "lifeless robots". And the "live forever"
scenario was offered as a bribe to Uhura when she (supposedly) betrayed the
captain.
-- Louis Newstrom louisnews@comcast.net
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