All Tomorrows Redux: Origins of the Star People
Added 2023-11-21 21:30:24 +0000 UTC
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Wow... 2 centuries? That's insane. For a normal human, that's more then enough time to complete their life goals. As for a star person.. well, it may be just enough. Their life mission is to explore the universe after all. Wait a sec- CHARACTERS?? Actual named characters? Holy!! I can't wait to see how your character writing is. I've listened to an audiobook of all tomorrows countless times, and fell in love with how you describe the events and arcs in such a way that feels monumental, like how the evolution of the new human species happened. The amount of years it took in between.. it's unlike anything I've listened/read before. How we follow not just a single person, but an entire species, multiple of them.. it's insane. I can't wait to see what characters you create, and how you handle their character arcs!!
Catlover00359
2026-01-08 08:04:18 +0000 UTCThe Orion's Arm Universe Project has something of a solution for this: Exoselves. Basically, people of any and every clade have an analog of what humans call a brain. And they use their DNI [sorry, Direct Neural Interface] to link to external computronium where they keep their Exoself. The Exoself consists of skill-sets, memories, and anything else you want to store in more reliable media for the long term. People in the Orion's Arm Universe regularly offload memories from their brain into their exoself, and download things from their exoself into their brains. Also, if a person needs to do any boring or tedious mental work, they can create a "sub-sophont-copy" of themselves in their Exoself to run that task, then re-merge with that copy when the task is done. Of course, in the Orion's Arm Universe, DNI took 1,000 years to get to a stable, well-developed state, and 2,000 years to become so safe that they're ubiquitous. By 10,000 years "from now, " anyone without DNI and an Exoself is considered handicapped.
John Weiss
2023-11-30 02:36:22 +0000 UTCYup - neuralink / gray goo with analog nanocomputers. I don't think one can use a computer as an inherent part of the mind - there will always be an interface, and it'll always cause problems.
C. M. Kosemen
2023-11-22 07:30:27 +0000 UTCAre these "tissues" like a more sophisticated, "gray goo" version of Elon Musk's Neuralink? Also, what do you mean by "true" mind-machine integration insofar as it being impossible?
Kyre Fiskrof
2023-11-21 23:48:41 +0000 UTC
