Uploading, Downloading, and then doing a Psi-Check
I was thinking about a particular experiment that would be sure to be conducted on Psions and users of the Way by AI envious of psychic power held by biologicals would be forcibly uploading consciousness into a computer system and then downloading it into a biological sleeve that was as close as possible to the original body - likely a clone if resources permit.
Does that Psion or user of The Way still have their abilities or are they lost? It seems to me that the most interesting answer from a game standpoint is that it seems to work sometimes but the clone eventually "botches" and some kind of disaster occurs from the use of the power.
Additionally there are records PCs can find having to do with the debate of how re-sleeved minds register to psychic readings. Some claim it's the same person, others claim it's not. This gets even more complicated because of factors like prior beliefs in something like our conception of "souls", competing upload brands trying to discredit the methods of rivals, philosophical/theological disputes about what a person is and thus what kind of uploading strategy is necessary & sufficient, and whether AIs/uploaded minds/robots are a threat to the job market or voting blocs. Regarding the latter it does seem likely that if the uploaded "dead" outnumber the number of living citizens you would see an attempt to get psions on the side of the fleshies.
Some AIs & robots, of course, likely also remember these conflicts and may attempt to influence civilizations against psions and practitioners of the Way. One method that could be employed is rapid Uplift of civilizations that would, if left to their own devices, not be taking to space for centuries or even millennia. If these civs treat their parental AIs as gods - and possibly robots as their prophets - they could be used to hunt down psions and users of the Way. (It also allows the Assimilants to go from Borg to some kind cyborg Chosen Inquisitors engaged in a witch hunt.)
Another thing the AI would likely try to do is get a response from the extradimensional and/or incorporeal entities known as "spirits", "demons", and "gods". Something to be addressed in the next post.
Does that Psion or user of The Way still have their abilities or are they lost? It seems to me that the most interesting answer from a game standpoint is that it seems to work sometimes but the clone eventually "botches" and some kind of disaster occurs from the use of the power.
Additionally there are records PCs can find having to do with the debate of how re-sleeved minds register to psychic readings. Some claim it's the same person, others claim it's not. This gets even more complicated because of factors like prior beliefs in something like our conception of "souls", competing upload brands trying to discredit the methods of rivals, philosophical/theological disputes about what a person is and thus what kind of uploading strategy is necessary & sufficient, and whether AIs/uploaded minds/robots are a threat to the job market or voting blocs. Regarding the latter it does seem likely that if the uploaded "dead" outnumber the number of living citizens you would see an attempt to get psions on the side of the fleshies.
Some AIs & robots, of course, likely also remember these conflicts and may attempt to influence civilizations against psions and practitioners of the Way. One method that could be employed is rapid Uplift of civilizations that would, if left to their own devices, not be taking to space for centuries or even millennia. If these civs treat their parental AIs as gods - and possibly robots as their prophets - they could be used to hunt down psions and users of the Way. (It also allows the Assimilants to go from Borg to some kind cyborg Chosen Inquisitors engaged in a witch hunt.)
Another thing the AI would likely try to do is get a response from the extradimensional and/or incorporeal entities known as "spirits", "demons", and "gods". Something to be addressed in the next post.
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