Intro to Shell Change
A shell change is when you transfer your current consciousness into another body. It's a bit like driving a different car, though most people are incapable of effectively driving the bodies they have now. How do you do this without having an identity crisis?
A shell change has to occur while your conscious mind is not aware of its immediate reality. The most common case is every night when you sleep. How do you know you are you when you wake up in the morning? You just believe it and go on with your day. Your memories of the past days are the only proof you need.
If you wake up in your new shell, you need only remember how you got there. In a shell change procedure, your neural configuration may even be modified so as to prevent you from having an identity crisis, though the entire human race is one large identity crisis, none able to figure out why we are here. That will be a question that may never be answered. I wonder how caterpillars handle transforming into winged creatures. Do they know what to expect going into the cacoon?
There is likely two ways to induce shell change. First way is to leave your current body intact and have a device create a copy of your current brain configuration. Your network would then be emulated on your new body. The new shell will think it is you, but you will not think it is you. In all liklihood, you would perceive someone that claims to be you as a threat and then try to take each other out. But because the new shell has upgrades, you would probably lose. Or maybe you could make friends and build a self-army.
My shell change preference is the slow transformation procedure. This is where your current shell becomes so heavily modified that is unrecognizable as the previous shell. This gives you time for you to process the fact that you are becoming something that isn't human. Also, there will be no continuity questions. You will not have a situation where you are left guessing who is who as with the previous procedure.
The benefits of a shell change are unimaginable, but I can think of a few. Selective memory editing. Adjustable time perception. Bad habit deletion. The list could go on forever, but I will leave your imagination to figure them out. Until next time, human.
11.25.2009. 01:36
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