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.
Comments (0) 11.25.2009. 01:36
Homo Evolutis, Independence
When the first humans become homo evolutis, there will be another cambrian explosion of life forms. Certainly Androids that resemble humans will dominate, but inevitably there will also be extreme life-forms. The transition will probably go something like this. Self modification will be taken to an extreme with invasive brain upgrades. This would usher in the cyborg era. Eventually, our biological hardware will no longer be of use and intelligence will move on to engineered hardware, with which anything is possible.
This begs the question, what is the ultimate form of existance? I should think a shell capable of interpreting its environment with plenty of detail would be a fairly nice existance. Being able to interpret the full spectrum of electromagnetic waves would be a nice start. I would want to be able to fully manipulate my environment or not at all, whichever the situation requires. I would run an emulator for my human brain so that I could experience being human in a self-created virtual reality, so I can experience all the things I missed while I was human.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I want to be a god. I don't want to be a god for the control though. I could care less about having control of Earth. There's no shortage of them. I want to be a god for the independence. I want to be able to explore myself indefinitely, without having to depend on others for my survival.
Perhaps you would want to experience being a tiger, or a giant squid? Maybe a cloud in the sky or even a tornado. How would you like to interpret the universe? Check out next post, where we find out what it would be like during a shell change.
Comments (0) 11.23.2009. 01:05
Nothing in Particular, Sidenotes
I will try my hardest to introduce you slowly to the depths of my chaotic neural network configuration, to increase your odds of understanding my words. Today, I want to further discuss our environment as a whole. In our universe, the 2nd law of thermodynamics states that no system may be perfectly efficient. I agree with that statement. On a sidenote, I realize that most would think it silly to disagree with the 2nd law, but it, like all assumptions, are subject to investigation. You should never be too easy to convince of something. Where were we... Such a perfectly efficient system would not allow communication into or out of it. Also, it would make sense, that such an efficient system would need to be infinite in size. It's a calculus problem I'm sure. As efficiency approaches 1, the number of system components approach infinity.
Ponder this for a moment. Assume that human life has a creator, a god, if you will, which is possible according to my Sixth Assumption. For that god to be able to create anything, a system with which to create the universe must have existed previously. This system may have assembled itself spontaneously, but regardless, a reality had to have existed before such a system could have been assembled in the first place. The point is, reality as a whole cannot have a creator, or even a beginning, because a beginning would indicate the presence of an external event which created the initial conditions for the existence of our universe. Following this line of logic, there is always something "outside" of wherever you are, which leads me to believe that reality is infinite.
Within said infinite reality, exists our universe. Our universe contains billions of galaxies, ours being of course the Milky Way. Our star, one of hundreds of billions, we call our Sun. This name is incredibly underwhelming considering the names we give other stars that aren't even ours: Antares, Betelgeuse, Vega and Pollux among many others. On our small planet exists a balance between hot and cold, where, in a very tiny sliver of possible temperatures, water is allowed to exist in a liquid state, providing lubrication for the mechanics of life.
So what are we doing? Most of us play along in participating with society. Nobody can think of anything better to do, so they just do what everyone else is doing. Monkey see, monkey do. The truth is, there are a vast number of planets just like ours, in this dimension or another, which also harbor machines through which Reality explores itself. What I'm trying to say is that Earth and its inhabitants are meaningless on the bigger scale, much like everything if you scale up enough. Advanced species would not be able to tell humans apart from any other primitive culture... but that will change soon. Well, I assume you're tired of me telling you about nothing in particular, but I can only give you bits and pieces as my cortext presents them to me. Data organization routines will be critical in digital life forms.
Comments (0) 11.20.2009. 05:34