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07-25-2017, 06:14 PM | #1 |
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Merged Uploads
My apologies if this has been discussed already, but I've not found an answer through various searches of the THS forum and I don't have all of the THS books.
Does any of the published material discuss merged uploads? This could be either one or more Xoxes going about their business for a while and then collating in their new experiences with the original, or separate ghosts engaged in symbiogenesis by digitally combining to form a new being. |
07-25-2017, 06:59 PM | #2 | |
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07-25-2017, 09:09 PM | #3 | |
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It requires the ability to read and understand the format for memory storage, and write new ones, which implies all sorts of stuff that can't yet be done on ghosts - most notably probably creating undetectably false memories and building artificial ghosts that never were human in the first place.
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07-25-2017, 09:12 PM | #4 |
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Ghosts can still make shadows; meatbrain people can make shadows. I don't see why you can't experience your shadow's experience at the level of a sensie, which maybe isn't as good as merging, it probably is good enough.
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07-25-2017, 11:35 PM | #5 | |
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*AIs also can audit sensie feeds, so there may be *AI-moderated alternatives like: 1) letting the auditor place the subject into a hypnogogic state and feed the relevant events and perceptions to them at high speed similar to the way humans can confabulate hours or days of events in a few seconds after a suggestive stimulus during sleep. 2) letting the auditor be a "second narrator" who monitors the subject's internal dialogue and inserts flashbacks to as-yet-unmerged events when they seem relevant. Another, more drastic long-term solution could be isolating the brain hemispheres of each ghost version and reconnecting them to their counterparts so that they can expose their memories and streams of consciousness to one another without interference from trauma or other damage that usually accompany dividing the hemispheres in split-braincases studied so far. |
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07-25-2017, 11:40 PM | #6 |
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Re: Merged Uploads
The shadow could just provide a good-parts-version summary, since it already knows which memories are the most vivid.
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07-27-2017, 11:31 AM | #7 |
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Re: Merged Uploads
I think it takes 10 hours to accomplish a brain-peeling to create a digital mind from a human. It should take no more than that to combine two separate digital minds (ghosts). I'm not talking about merely monitoring sensie feeds, but the creation of a new mind that is the sum of its parts. I've not found this explicitly described, but it seems like exactly the sort of thing likely to happen with the technology central to THS.
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07-25-2017, 10:06 PM | #8 |
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07-28-2017, 01:33 AM | #10 | |
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