Souls Versus Cryogenics

Bagpuss

Legend
Are we playing Call of Cthulhu?

  • When the body is revived the soul doesn't return, leaving that vessel easy to be inhabited by other beings.
  • When the body is revived the soul has been driven mad by its time trapped in the Dreamlands.

Are we playing Cyberpunk?

  • There is no soul, but your mind was encoded and downloading onto a computer, when your body was frozen. If you are lucky you could afford the processing power for a VR upgrade to pass the time, otherwise you are stuck on a shelf somewhere.
  • Your body was sold in a corporate take over and was turned into process meat, your mind was accidentally deleted.
  • Your body was illegally jacked by another encoded mind, when you eventually get put back in it you find you are wanted for grand larceny and acts of terrorism.
  • Your mind was loaded into a combat cyborg, there is very little left that you would recognise as your body.
  • You regularly swap bodies, the concept of self is entirely unrelated to the form you take, you could be a old man one day, a young woman the next, you once tried living as a vat grown tiger for a few hours. Perhaps one day you with thaw out your old rags, but today you are planning on being an attack helicopter.
  • When you eventually get put back into your body, data corruption has lead to changes in your personality and whole sections of missing memories.
 
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Umbran

Mod Squad
Staff member
Supporter
Someone once said the gods are real if you believe in them...

Someone also once said that the Edsel was going to be a success. Someone said that Ishtar was a movie worth seeing. And someone said that if you keep making that face, it is going to get stuck like that.

Someone is often wrong.
 

Samloyal23

Adventurer
Someone also once said that the Edsel was going to be a success. Someone said that Ishtar was a movie worth seeing. And someone said that if you keep making that face, it is going to get stuck like that.

Someone is often wrong.

Sure, but you never actually know anything until...
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...You find out.
 


Samloyal23

Adventurer
Are we playing Call of Cthulhu?

  • When the body is revived the soul doesn't return, leaving that vessel easy to be inhabited by other beings.
  • When the body is revived the soul has been driven mad by its time trapped in the Dreamlands.

Are we playing Cyberpunk?

  • There is no soul, but your mind was encoded and downloading onto a computer, when your body was frozen. If you are lucky you could afford the processing power for a VR upgrade to pass the time, otherwise you are stuck on a shelf somewhere.
  • Your body was sold in a corporate take over and was turned into process meat, your mind was accidentally deleted.
  • Your body was illegally jacked by another encoded mind, when you eventually get put back in it you find you are wanted for grand larceny and acts of terrorism.
  • Your mind was loaded into a combat cyborg, there is very little left that you would recognise as your body.
  • You regularly swap bodies, the concept of self is entirely unrelated to the form you take, you could be a old man one day, a young woman the next, you once tried living as a vat grown tiger for a few hours. Perhaps one day you with thaw out your old rags, but today you are planning on being an attack helicopter.
  • When you eventually get put back into your body, data corruption has lead to changes in your personality and whole sections of missing memories.

Transferring consciousness is a fascinating idea. I thought "Tale of the Body-Thief" was one of the more exciting vampire novels Anne Rice did. I would love to be able to switch bodies with people. This idea had so much potential, there were endless avenues the story could have gone down. Probably the first thing I would do is switch bodies with a woman to broaden my experience, walk a mile in her pumps. Then I would have to switch places with an aquatic mammal, like a dolphin or orca, go explore the ocean...
 


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