On Tuesday, 25th August 1992, Richard Johnson writes:
> Michael Glew claims that "mind is a product of brain" and that the
> amount of mind is directly proportional to the size of the brain.
> Assuming he's correct in this ultimate cartesian fantasy -- then if
> I lived in a TL14 universe, I'd pay nearly everything I owned to get
> "uploaded" into a *BIG* computer - one wiht say (brain)^3 connections.
That was merely a guideline to cover the fact that humans of similar
mental ability have different size brains. It would be a fair comment
to say that a mind is at home is it's original brain, which is what I
meant here. The fact that brain downloading is not available until
TL21 or there abouts (see Referee's Companion), means that no imperial
citizens would normally be able to do this... Anyway, not many people
would want to be uploaded to a computer system, as not all people are
computer nuts (like us...).
> Then I could grow beyond human bounds in thought and reason, and never
> look back.
Actually, you would not change at all, your computer with your personality
would be the entity that would experience this. Your entire memory
would just be dumped in to a giant expert system. (a Richard Johnson
expert in this case...)
(back off man - i'm a computer science/information systems major... 8-)
> Since not only has no one done this in MT, _no species has_. Not even
> the ancients did this. There must be some reason. It might be because
> the argument is faulty (in game terms - not real life, we don't know
> that yet). It might be because there is some quantum effect with Si
> that prevents that many interconnections. It might be because _my_
> logic is flawed.
Correction, "The Ancients" uploaded personalities to their worker robots
psionics and all... You obviously have not done the "..Secret of the Ancients"
adventure. I won't go in to detail as some people may not have been through
that one. Look in the Referee's Companion, in the Technology Level tables
under medicine (i think). There are high TL brain transfers, and the such.
It seems straight forward to me that Psi is conbtained in the unused portion
of the brain/mind... 63% unused? Hence a full brain dump will process this
data along with the rest of the memories. But a certain level of technology
must be achieved for this to be possible...
Regards,
Mike.
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