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-	~~==Uploading and Mind Emulation==~~
-	~~Memories are encoded within the physical structure~~
-	~~of the brain on the molecular level. Uploading is the~~
-	~~process of copying all this information into a digital form.~~
-	~~These upload recordings can be used to create a mind~~
-	~~emulation, a computer program that, when run on a sufficiently~~
-	~~potent computer, emulates the workings of the~~
-	~~original person’s mind.~~
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-	~~A mind emulation is not merely a recording, but a~~
-	~~conscious, self-aware, working digital model of the way~~
-	~~a particular living being’s brain functions. This requires~~
-	~~simulating much of the rest of the body and its environment~~
-	~~as well: “naked consciousness” bereft of context~~
-	~~rapidly becomes insane.~~
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-	~~Mind emulations can be housed in computers contained~~
-	~~within bioshells or cybershells. Those without~~
-	~~mobile bodies inhabit virtual reality simulations of, at~~
-	~~minimum, a room. They are often permitted to access the~~
-	~~wider Web itself, allowing them to partake of online virtual~~
-	~~realities.~~
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-	~~Emulations are usually made of human minds, but~~
-	~~animals can be emulated. The legal status of human mind~~
-	~~emulations varies between nations: some treat them as~~
-	~~artificial intelligences, others as people. There are three~~
-	~~types of mind emulation:~~
-	~~===Ghost===~~
-	~~A “ghost” is created via a destructive uploading (or~~
-	~~“brainpeeling”) process. A living or newly dead patient (or~~
-	~~his severed head) is placed into nanostasis. The brain is~~
-	~~removed and carefully sliced by robotic surgeons into multiple~~
-	~~tiny segments. Each segment is then scanned by a~~
-	~~hypersensitive magnetic resonance imager (HyMRI) or~~
-	~~other instrument. The data is used to create a digital reconstruction~~
-	~~of the patient’s brain configuration, called a~~
-	~~ghost.~~
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-	~~Brainpeeling is fatal to the original person, so ghosts~~
-	~~are controversial. Is it suicide or transcendence? A ghost~~
-	~~is a perfect mind emulation, mentally indistinguishable~~
-	~~from the original person. Whether it is a “human~~
-	~~being” remains in question. People and religions that~~
-	~~believe in souls differ on whether ghosts have them.~~
-	~~Ghosts require a great deal of computer power to run,~~
-	~~equivalent to a sapient AI, but current computers are~~
-	~~sophisticated enough that a ghost can be built into a computer~~
-	~~small enough to be implanted in a brain.~~
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-	~~Most ghosts are the product of individuals who deliberately~~
-	~~underwent destructive uploading in order to obtain~~
-	~~a form of immortality, often out of a desire to live as a~~
-	~~posthuman entity in a superhuman cybershell body or~~
-	~~series of bodies. Ghosts have certain advantages: for~~
-	~~example, they allow rapid travel across the solar system~~
-	~~and beyond, if a receiving station has been set up. Ghosts~~
-	~~are also cheaper than full-scale cellular rejuvenation technology.~~
-	~~Perhaps most significantly, a ghost can be copied~~
-	~~indefinitely. It is against the law in nearly all nations for a~~
-	~~person to exist as more than one conscious ghost, but it is~~
-	~~legal to create backups of the original or the ghost’s current~~
-	~~state. Copying either is as simple as copying any other~~
-	~~computer program: each backup requires hundreds of terabytes~~
-	~~of storage, but that is easy to come by.~~
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-	~~The big drawback of ghosts is the question of whether~~
-	~~it’s really you or just something that thinks it is. The other~~
-	~~drawback is that uploading is a complex medical procedure,~~
-	~~and once in a while, the operation fails. This usually~~
-	~~results in a badly flawed copy or no copy at all.~~
-	~~===Fragment===~~
-	~~A “fragment” results from a failed attempt to create a~~
-	~~ghost. It has little or no memory of its past existence, but~~
-	~~may retain vestiges of its original personality and skills.~~
-	~~Fragments are often produced when attempting to~~
-	~~destructively upload a person who, after dying, was not~~
-	~~immediately placed in nanostasis. If he was frozen using~~
-	~~older cryonics techniques, or there was a delay of several~~
-	~~minutes or more, then there is a high likelihood of retrieving~~
-	~~only a fragment rather than a ghost. In areas where~~
-	~~ghosts are treated like people, fragments are treated like~~
-	~~people with mental illness or amnesia.~~
-	~~===Shadow===~~
-	~~Shadows have all the advantages of ghosts, can be~~
-	~~run on less powerful computers, and take up less data~~
-	~~storage space. They have one big disadvantage: it is clear~~
-	~~they aren’t quite identical to the original.~~
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-	~~Shadows are generally created through a nondestructive~~
-	~~mind emulation process (“brainscanning”). This~~
-	~~process uses nanoprobe monitoring to provide data for a~~
-	~~computer model. A shadow is basically a low-sapient AI~~
-	~~that has been taught to behave like a person. (A sapient AI~~
-	~~has already become a person.) Editing a ghost or fragment~~
-	~~can also produce a shadow. This is as much an art~~
-	~~as a science, but it will generally produce a more compressed~~
-	~~copy suitable for running on a less powerful~~
-	~~system.~~
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-	~~Shadows are legal in most blocs except the Islamic~~
-	~~Caliphate, but are generally treated as property rather~~
-	~~than actual people. Multiple copying of shadows is legal~~
-	~~in some areas, strongly regulated in others.~~
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-	~~==Rights==~~
-	~~===Non-Sapient AIs===~~
-	~~NAIs are universally considered nonpersons, owned property.~~
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-	~~===Low-Sapient AIs===~~
-	LAIs are considered in the same category as domestic animals or pets everywhere but the Islamic Caliphate, where they have limited citizenship. Emergent LAIs aren't treated differently in Duncanite territories but are considered wild animals everywhere else.
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-	~~===Sapient AIs===~~
-	SAIs are considered in the same category as domestic animals or pets in Pacific Rim, South African, Transpacific, United States, and Duncanite territories. They have limited citizenship in Chinese territories and full citizenship in the European Union, Islamic Caliphate, and transhumanist territories. In India, they are considered nonpersons. Creation of new SAIs is tightly controlled in China, the South African Coalition, and Transpacific Socialist Alliance. Emergent SAIs are citizens in transhumanist colonies, animals in Duncanite territores, wild animals in the European Union, Islamic Caliphate, and USA, and are immediately destroyed in all other nations.
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-	~~===Mind Emulations===~~
-	Ghosts have full citizenship in the European Union, Pacific Rim Alliance, South African Coalition, USA, and Duncanite and transhumanist colonies and limited citizenship in China and India. The Transpacific Socialist Alliance treats them as domestic animals and they are illegal in the Islamic Caliphate, subject to immediate incarceration and destruction. Fragments have limited citizenship in all territories that grant ghosts citizenship with the exception of Duncanite colonies, which treat them as animals. The Transpacific Socialist Alliance considers fragments property. Shadows are treated as normal LAIs or SAIs except for the Islamic Caliphate, where they are illegal. Creation of ghosts is restricted in China, the European Union, and India.
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-	~~===Bioshells===~~
-	AIs in control of bioshells are subject to immediate destruction in the European Union, India, and Islamic Caliphate. The only exceptions are ghosts. In India a ghost (or fragment) is allowed to inhabit a bioshell, and in the EU a ghost is allowed to inhabit a clone or necromorph bioshell of its original body. Additionally, it is illegal for emergent AIs to inhabit bioshells in China, the Transpacific Socialist Alliance, or USA.
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-	~~===Special Cases===~~
-	Rogue AIs are subject to immediate destruction everywhere but transhumanist colonies, where they are considered citizens but creation of them is restricted. The same is true of xoxes except that Duncanite colonies treat them as animals, essentially property of the original AI.

	==Social Context==		==Social Context==

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[[Category:Technology]]
While humanity has become more and more diverse,
new forms of sentience have appeared on Earth. Among
these are the final achievement of [[Third Wave]] digital civilization:
fully sapient computers.

The arrival of sapient AI has actually been a long
process. The first computers capable of passing the so-called
“Turing test” appeared as early as 2015, depending
on how strictly one applies Turing’s criteria. Certainly the
most advanced machines of the time could run software
granting them the ability to interact with humans in
idiomatic “natural” language, developing distinctive personalities
of their own. In the course of the 21st century,
computer hardware and software continued to advance,
and such personality simulations became commonplace.
By the 2040s even a typical personal computer could interact
with its user as if it were a friendly and cooperative
sapient being.

Such machines were certainly intelligent, but the
question of whether they were sapient beings remained
open. In some sense, that question remains open to the
present day. The nature of consciousness remains obscure,
so it remains impossible to prove or disprove the self-awareness
of any advanced computer. Asking the
machines themselves is no help – some claim to be self-aware,
others (sometimes of the same model, with the
same software base) claim not to be. Hard-line “vitalists”
continue to maintain that only biological organisms can be
said to be creative, sapient beings, but this position is
harder to defend with each passing year. Today, most
people simply don’t worry about it, and treat anything
that behaves intelligently as a human-equivalent.
In any case, about the time of the [[Pacific War]],
machines of human-level intelligence became cheap and
widely available. Today almost any desktop, vehicle or
[[cybershell]] “brain” has the potential for intelligence about
equal to that of an unmodified human being. Such computers
can be built and maintained for much lower
cost than that necessary to “build” and maintain a
human being. The most advanced machines
have attained what would be considered
genius-level intelligence in a human.
Although such computers are extremely
expensive, they have certain advantages
over human beings – they are much better at
concentrating on a specific task, they can
correlate vast amounts of information very
quickly, and they can use a much wider variety
of sensory equipment.

As a result, the long rear-guard action
fought by human labor against the advance of
automation is entering its last stages. Machine intelligence
can now replace biological intelligence in a tremendous
variety of occupations, including creative and
decision-making tasks. Indeed, it is now possible for biological
intelligence to become machine intelligence, using
the new “downloading” technologies.

This situation is bringing many of the most developed
nations to the point of crisis. In most of these societies,
unemployment is rising very rapidly and putting considerable
strain on society. Most futurists believe that Earth is
moving toward a global “leisure society,” in which most
human beings need not work at all. How to attain such a
goal remains unclear. Some nations are building massive
social-spending programs, ensuring that the chronically
underemployed have a minimum income sufficient even
for a few luxuries. Others, less accustomed to running a
welfare state, are suffering serious social tensions. These
are often generational (as young unemployed find themselves
envying the older investor class) or ethnic (as unemployed
immigrants find themselves envying wealthy
natives). There is also a strong anti-technological bias in
some of today’s labor movements, as the unemployed violently
resist the further spread of automation.

Meanwhile, it’s unclear whether the machines themselves
are willing to support an “unproductive” class of
biological citizens. Most intelligent computers are simply
programmed to work loyally, but many of the most intelligent
are self-programming, and are liable to question their
place in society. So far there has been no organized
machine resistance, but there are a number of “machine
liberation” movements worldwide, supported by both
intelligent machines and biological citizens. Some nations
have responded by defining categories of citizenship for
emancipated computers, or even by giving advanced
[[infomorphs]] a role in government.