From: Delvieron@aol.com
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 00:48:45 MDT
Was wondering what people thought of the idea of a borganism, originally
multiples, which would have units in physical space and cyberspace. We'll
keep our initial borganism down to two units for now. Let's say we start
with a cryo patient that we want to upload, and the patient couldn't decide
whether to become just software or to get a new body, so they do both. The
personalities of our cyber unit (C-unit) and physical unit (P-unit) start out
identical, and we use some heavy telecommunications hardware and software to
keep a high bandwidth comm channel between the two, through which they
exchange memories realtime, but any other data is carefully vetted (on the
theory that it is safer to have a false memory than a false personality
download) by conscious introspection. What do you think it would be like to
be this borganism? How closely connected would they have to be to truly stay
one. If they started diverging personalities, how would it affect their
sense of identity given that they operate in such different environments?
For example, I could see our borganism interpreting differences in
personality between the C-unit and P-unit as how it feels in different
situations (yah know, I'm much more artistic in c-space than in p-space, but
I like having a custom body out here in p-space all to myself, helps with my
current experiments, though I do most of the modeling in c-space). What
would be the advantages and disadvantages to trying for the best of all
worlds?
Glen Finney
A Borganism of One<g>
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