Beaming oneself. How commonplace is that practice?
What I guess I'm asking is, is the support structure (the equipment to recieved and resleeve an Infomorph or AI, and the, uh, "Parking Lot" so to speak for bodies) fairly commonplace? Or is it largely the property of the most well-established colonies and habitats. The mental image I'm getting is of regular, commonplace, beaming among the H+ community that can afford it while outlying communities still require spacecraft to reach (though perhaps have the means to "beam out" an Infomorph)... is that about right?
Also, about how long does it take to have a morph designed. Again, the image I'm getting is similar to Transhuman Space, it's a complex messy process to produce the final product, a couple months, half to a full year or so for biological forms. In the meantime you're hanging about in a robot body or somewhere in the Mesh. Correct?
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Thu, 2008-11-20 01:01
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GregH
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The term we use is "egocasting." It's fairly common, and even small stations and large ships are likely to have the "ego bridge" equipment necessary for sleeving into a biomorph. The availability of bodies will depend on local conditions. It's much easier to sleeve into a synthetic morph -- you just download into the cyberbrain -- and synthmorphs are more readily available. In most cases you'll have to make do with the biomorphs the local body bank services have on hand. Growing a customized biomorph from scratch takes quite a bit of time, yeah -- 6 months+. It's easier/quicker to take a morph that exists on hand and tailor it.
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How much data can be recieved at the same time by the egocasting computers? dropped packages would not be a funny thing.
Also, would a solar storm disrupt the data, and if so is there any safeguards?
I think that all egocasting is done via quantum farcasting, which occurs at the speed of light and is error-proof. I think.
Solar flare activity could indeed disrupt part of an egocast, but the infrastructure (more complete description of which we didn't have space for) involves a widely dispersed network of relay satellites with a lot of redundancy and error checking. So it's not like your ego gets flung out into the black as a single transmission.
When egocasting, the consciousness is virtualized and kept "live" for continuity, running over the transit network, albeit drastically slowed down to account for latency in transit. We don't go into the possibility of tampering with the transmission networks, but the assumption is that massive redundancy and error checking make it extraordinarily difficult. For the mind being transported, though, the experience is much like moving through an ego bridge.
Thanks for the extra info. I really like the fact that you've thought through the stuff that went into the book.
However, it is a shame that you couldn't get enough pages to actually have it in the book.
"When egocasting, the consciousness is virtualized and kept "live" for continuity, running over the transit network, albeit drastically slowed down to account for latency in transit."
So there's no lack, even if the transmission takes an hour? Good to know.
Yup. Thanks.
True, for transfers.
You can also egocast a cold backup, though.
What made it in, hopefully, is what people need to play.
My obsessive philosophizing on the topic is considerably less important. :)
For some maybe ;)