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[alxian]

your body is on the verge of failure

you are given the option of cloning your body.

they claim that once the full adult cloned body is ready they will transplant your brain


however as the day draws closer it becomes clear your brain is becoming less fit for a direct transplant.

they offer you can alternative.


"We can sew both brains together and then train your brain to function in both bodies at once," the medic says, "you'll train your mind to control the cloned body then we'll systematically shut down your old brain." "Hopefully your mind will have transferred completely without ill effect before your old brain and body sease functioning." adds his secondary.

you think to yourself, IF the mind transfer works, and IF whatevers killing me doesn't transfer from my old body into the clone while our bodies are linked.

to avoid this only the nerves are connected at first, then a stronger bridge of neural tissue grows between the six lobes and shared optic nerve.

they claim the technique keeps whatever spark of life their might be intact, since it will flow into the new mind and be sequestered there while the old brain and body are euthanized. starting with the limbs and then killing the larger nerves, finally nuking the brain.


i guess i'd like to know how long it would take for the blank template brain to be trained by the old one. the old one took decades to form and hopefully didn't suffer much decay before the procedure.. but if it knows how to make those connections and the brain chemistry and structure similar enough the old brain might simply expand into the cloned brain. once the transfer was complete the clone wouldn't be good for much, about as useful to the world as a four year old, but the template in its truest form of the old brain would take hold.

getting memories to transfer could be the most difficult part. reliving a life time within a few days of weeks might not be so easy. the clone once 'complete' would lack the memories of its former host.

perhaps if we had a way now to make hardcopies of our memories we could avoid that loss during body transferences?