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** There's now a way to backup/restore (or run as AI, or edit) someone's brain using [[nanomachines]], created as a part of an immortality project. One of the lead researchers ran off and uploaded his mind into a medical suite. Later this method was used to [[Grand Theft Me|overwrite brains as a way to deliver infiltrators]]. When not all data is actually delivered, this may backfire, of course.
** It turns out that {{spoiler|the Schuul}} can do much the same with bodies of other species (such as humans), probably artificially grown, when they want to snoop around a little.
** A few millions of years ago, after Bradicor implementation of [[The Ageless|biological immortality]] combined with their brain architecture led to [
** The All-Star is an ancient artifact specifically built as a huge (it's a dedicated [[Dyson Sphere]]) network for uploaded sophonts. [[Hidden Elf Village|The place is secret]], thus they forcibly upload those who discover them to keep it this way, but otherwise are all for protecting the agency of sapience. At least after [
{{quote|'''Putzho''' (a newcomer given the whole picture as a part of the orientation/interview): ''Hey''. You're only at 44% capacity. You could pull ''everybody else'' in the Galaxy in here and not tick past 45%.
'''Ulaque''': We tried that once. As raptures go, it was unacceptably lossy. }}
** There's a difference for continuity of mind, however: a swarm of specialized [[nanobots]] can take and transmit the state of a living brain point by point, allowing to create a coherent backup, which is just a load of data that can be ''copied'' onto suitable wetware (normally, a clone of the original brain assembled by medical nanobots) or hardware (where "downlift" effectively becomes an AI with peculiar architecture and personal history) medium to run again; it doesn't have to be unique, and indeed "brain clones" (both vanilla and tweaked) of still living people are occasionally made. "Soul-gig" used by Oafa and All-Star is a variant teraport that ''moves'' someone's mind as a big wave packet into another medium.
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' explores the politics of this solution [http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-05-07 here].
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