HRogge Wrote:I thought transferring a mind into a backup/computer without destroying the old one was something new in Season 2... at least for biological minds... ^^Doing it in such a way that you get two independent people out of it, who are (and stay) both more or less sane... Yes, that is something people only consistently come to grips with in Season 2. There's been all sorts of one-off stuff from the beginning. But, worse than just quirky, one of the two minds, almost always the non-biological one, self-destructs pretty quickly unless carefully maintained; stable 'twins' are very rare. G1 & G2 dopple-bots use an organic matrix, and don't have a 'mental recording' anywhere else, and from a magical viewpoint are using both 'similarity' and 'contagion'.
Taking non-destructive (full) backups of minds is something that was only known to be done by the Professor's Julian Friez Machine, which contained a copy of Julian's mind, a snap-shot, while the apparently unaltered original was still walking around. However, it appeared to take quite a while for most people to figure-out that was what had happened.
There were partial backups (of minds in human biological brains) earlier than Season 2, but they were all flawed in some way, generally disintegrating after at most a few days of running. Some wouldn't run for more than a few hours. Destructive backups, of course, or 'transfers', happened quite early on, in Season 0.
I'm unsure if there were any cases of "backing someone up on tape" so multiple, long-term stable, versions of them could be made, before Season 2. The more spiritual among the Fen might refer to "spreading one soul too thin", or "transmigration of souls is OK, multiple parallel incarnations, not so much".
In the transmigration accidents for G1 and G2 d-bots, it is unclear whether the original bodies were biomodded, or had significant levels of handwavium in them (you're allowed to be very suspicious about Carlo). Concern about this might be one reason both projects were terminated so fast. For G1 you wouldn't want unwise people trying to get to Luna the "cheap" way, in particular if you've no idea if it would work. For G2 the mental health issues were really worrying, particularly given how the G1 project had ended, and long-term use issues were a major concern.
On a meta level, if you think this risks breaking what you are doing with Season 2 stories, I'll withdraw this. It was intended as part of the background I'm doing to the Kandor City Police Department, and be a partial explanation as to how a relatively small group of Fen built Kandor City in such a remarkably short period of time.
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