A lot of it is due to the way the Horse Smith thinks everything works - rationalisation.
This is supposed to be one of those characters made from living handwavium, but really quite low key, and highly specialised.
There isn't really any consciousness transfer, just a distributed consciousness and a lot of self-delusion.
Morphing clothing isn't quite trivial compared with the rest of it, but it is pretty low key.
Part of the original spec was FESS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Stasheff
But, that sort of drained away as the spec developed, just leaving the robot horse making capability (which many Fen will be happier with).
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
This is supposed to be one of those characters made from living handwavium, but really quite low key, and highly specialised.
There isn't really any consciousness transfer, just a distributed consciousness and a lot of self-delusion.
Morphing clothing isn't quite trivial compared with the rest of it, but it is pretty low key.
Part of the original spec was FESS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Stasheff
But, that sort of drained away as the spec developed, just leaving the robot horse making capability (which many Fen will be happier with).
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind