From: Guru George (gurugeorge@sugarland.idiscover.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 06 1997 - 13:01:16 MST
Kyle L. Webb wrote:-
>There's actually a ready made constituency for this one. Check out
>alt.fan.furry sometime. The fans of anthropomorphic animals there are
>quite keen on the idea of morphing themselves into the body types of
>their choice.
>On the slightly tamer side of things, for those interested in animals and
>animal behavior, directly interfacing to the brain of a target animal, and
>recording the sensations/behavior/emotions etc, then replaying it into the
>mind via a direct interface could be a revolution in understanding animal
>behavior. Doing this with humans to create either direct links or just
>recording and playing back would open up a lot in behavioral studies
>(and make a hell of a lot of people very nervous).
Wild! My particular preference would be to a superhero form. I can
see in the future a kind of PoPoPoPoMo re-cycling of now contemporary
superhero characters, even film heroes. There will be fads, and
fashions!
Another variation:- John Varley wrote a short story about someone
vacationing as a lion. The personality is downloaded into a controller
implant in the lion's brain (I think, or I might have just made that up).
The life of a lion, with the proprioceptive feedback of a lion,
simplifies the thoughts in a meditative kind of way.
Guru George
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