How much computer memory does an Ego take up in terms of analogous modern day computer servers and hard drives?
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How Many Bytes is a Soul?
Mon, 2014-09-08 22:18
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Adaptive Radiation
How Many Bytes is a Soul?
Mon, 2014-09-08 23:37
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prototyper
I think it's gonna be ....
I think it's gonna be one of those things that they are going to deliberately leave vague (like the actual year in AD/CE terms), as it doesn't really matter. Memory is so plentiful that it doesn't really factor in, and/or is left up to the GM to decide.
Tue, 2014-09-09 00:49
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ShadowDragon8685
Except that we actually know
Except that we actually know that 2143 is the most likely date for the canon game. :)
As for the actual storage print of a transhuman mind? I would start with "Highly variable" and "there's probably enough combined memory currently on the planet earth (as of the time of this post) to hold a few" and work from there.
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Tue, 2014-09-09 16:09
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Adaptive Radiation
I probably should rephrase
I probably should rephrase the question. Nowadays you can get a portable storage device the size of a notepad that can hold a terabyte or so of data. Fast forward that technology 200 hundred years into the Eclipse Phase universe and they presumably have a similar storage device of the same size or smaller that now holds more than a terabyte of memory but not more memory than a 2.5 meter tall server in the same universe would have. Now, how many egos can I put in that small storage device?
Tue, 2014-09-09 16:26
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UnitOmega
In a hand-sized device?
In a hand-sized device? Probably one, I think. Maybe two or three if it's just pure storage, no instancing. Ectos are a little smaller than that and can theoretically store an ego, I think. There's not a lot of concern with inactive storage due to it being basically unlimited at this point, mostly with how big the devices which can run an instanced Ego are. I would use the server rules in transhuman as a guideline for scaling, maybe.
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Tue, 2014-09-09 19:49
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ORCACommander
an ecto can run an alpha fork
an ecto can run an alpha fork albeit inefficiently but that is not a space issue. a person's mind is in orders of magnitudes greater than petabytes.
Tue, 2014-09-09 21:06
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LatwPIAT
Anders Sandberg co-authored a
Anders Sandberg co-authored a [url=http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf]paper[/url] on this topic. Depending on the level of detail of your model, the RAM demands range from 30 megabytes to 300 yottabytes (1 yottabyte = 10^18 megabytes). Processing demands at the low level of detail are 1 petaFLOPS, and 10^19 yottaFLOPS at the high end.
However, canonically as others have mentioned, an Ecto (which comes with mesh interfacing hardware and its own power supply) can hold exactly one Ego. Ectos are the size of credit cards, and credit cards follow [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7810]an ISO standard[/url]. This puts the Ego-density at 285 Egos/litre.
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