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1. How far have the prosthetics technology come? Can they simply regrow a severed limb or will a person. Given enough money be able to insert mechanical prosthetics like Bionic commando (example: http://surprisejunkies.files.wordpress. ... d-1599.jpg).
2. Is it possible to transform your knowledge and personality into data and then become a walking robot, thingymabob, machine?
3. Conserning beasts and mutant's. Sludge dragons or parasitic beasts are all allowed? to what extent do the guards of Teinar shoot to kill? If a monster looked humanoid in apperance and had the necessary intelligence to understand laws and speak could they become citizens?
4. About bikes (yes i saw the biker gang stuff). How expensive would fuel be and is it possible to attain Nitrous dioxide like boosts of some kind?5. How fast can these bikes go considering a modern age racing bike can reach 320 km/h with 200 horsepower.
6. Armored plating and uniform, shielded clothing. How far has this technology gone and who can obtain it?
that isn’t enough, frightening creatures prowl the land, the result of being exposed to far too much radiation, eating the tainted plants and fish, and drinking from the polluted lakes and rivers—and having adapted to it all in order to survive. However, there is also speculation that some of these creatures are the throwbacks of failed genetic engineering experiments conducted by Aedolis
First of all, hi. ^^ I hope what I've got to say is helpful. I've considered something similar to computerized identity myself, and wound up deciding that virtual selfhood would be quite complex, and the idea of identity in that way would be, at best (technological complication aside), philosophically troubling in the extreme. Think about it: you make a complete computerized copy of you, and you yourself are destroyed in the instant of its making. Is that you?Okay, now imagine that you yourself are not destroyed.Is that you?Is it a clone? Is it a 'relative'? The fact is, 'identity' as such is a complicated issue... I imagine that alone would make such technology highly unpopular, even were it to become available to more than a few people. I guess I've been operating under the 'crazy scientist' assumption... would a computerized version of a person even be treated as that personally, legally? So many issues.It would be interesting to have this theoretical idea come up in-game. Maybe some of our bloggers could talk about it, if, for instance, someone worked on this technology, or a scientist started to make claims about it. That would be really fun in-game, a way to bring the whole thing up. But I defer to Rhi and Tal, as always.
legally speaking the digital you would be reduced to being considered a computer program unless someone made laws spesifically designed for self concious Artificial Intelligence. Then youd be a blight on the digital world. A virus that keeps uploading itself everywhere it goes.
Considering the digital world, HOW many terrabytes of space would a person take up? Thats why it hit me that especially if the technology is crude. Then the brain or personality would regress back to childhood. At the very least <,<
If there isnt an A.I system already in place, then where would said A.I live? If you took a copy of the person and inserted the copy into another computer, would that be a clone or would the process of copying itself be impossible? X3 omg this will definately be fun to roleplay even if she died or was scrapped by ignorant humans.
I played this once. XD On another board. Didn't get to go through with the plot, but it was quite interesting.
Actually, it'd be a lot more complex than that. At present the going theory in cognitive science is functionalism, loosely defined as 'the hardware doesn't matter, it's all software.' In other words, we can program people into computers, though we'd have to take into account hormonal function and even, probably, proprioception etc., as well as all the stuff in the brain and nervous system. Childishness would be the least of what could go wrong, dealing with all of that stuff. o_0
Yeah! It would be really interesting. And there's no reason why copying the program would be impossible, in theory. It's just data like anything else. But you would need the appropriate auxiliary programs, wouldn't you? I mean, how does someone 'live in a computer'? How would you play that?