Editing 1666: Brain Upload
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|First draft still. Why do they wish to upload a consciousness and what could be achieved (with a better brain than Cueball's)? It is for his or science sake. What about the risks.}} | |
− | + | [[Megan]] is uploading [[Cueball|Cueball's]] {{w|consciousness}} into a computer device attached to his head via a cap on his skull. After the upload the computer seems to have stopped responding to inputs, causing Megan to conclude that the process has failed, but this type of behavior is what Cueball is used to face from his won brain, so to him it just sounds like the upload actually worked. | |
− | + | In the title text either [[Randall]] or Cueball tells that this kind of no response from the brain (or a computer) is something he just experienced when trying to write a mail and then failing to get started for 20 minutes while he (or his brain) tried to decide the very important detail of wether to begin the mail with 'Hi' of 'Hey', which is of course ridiculous. | |
− | + | Sometimes computers can seem to be locked in a state from where it will never progress, but if left alone for long enough, they sometimes snap out of it, although often the user would loose patience before and crash restart the computer. As this cannot be done with a brain{{Citation needed}} it was lucky it only took 20 minutes for Randall to move on... | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Megan is standing in front of the control panel of a device with both hands on the keyboard. The device is linked to Cueball's heads through a wire that goes to a cap on | + | :[Megan is standing in front of the control panel of a device with both hands on the keyboard. The device is linked to Cueball's heads through a wire that goes to a cap on to of Cueball's head, where it spreads out in more than ten wires connecting to different places all over the cap. Cueball sits, hands in his laps, on a kind of table on the other side of the device facing Megan.] |
:Megan: Neural-digital link established. Ready to upload your consciousness to the computer? | :Megan: Neural-digital link established. Ready to upload your consciousness to the computer? | ||
:Cueball: Sure, go for it. | :Cueball: Sure, go for it. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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