What a strange world it would be if there were ever an orthodox method. It is, after all, more common than most people suspect, and still not terribly common at all.
If I had to guess the major difference, I'd assume it was a matter of who the system is intended to benefit: the people operating the technology, or the person the technology is used upon. In this case, happily, everyone benefits.
[Once they're standing in front of the chair, she studies him while he studies it. He's scarred, she's given to understand, but repairs can be attempted.
There's a man in a sweater vest slotting a blank wedge, a storage device, into the head of the chair. DeWitt says nothing to him, even if his early FitzSimmons-like excess of energy means a certain likelihood that he'd want to say something to her.]
First, we're going to make a copy of your mind as it is. The requisite backup of your original personality. It isn't painful. I hesitate even to describe it as uncomfortable, speaking from personal experience.
[It's only mildly unpleasant. After that, a clean wipe, and then the brain-mapping and installation of Active architecture: that last part is painful, but what he won't remember doesn't count.]
other thread's in captcha so just have this.
If I had to guess the major difference, I'd assume it was a matter of who the system is intended to benefit: the people operating the technology, or the person the technology is used upon. In this case, happily, everyone benefits.
[Once they're standing in front of the chair, she studies him while he studies it. He's scarred, she's given to understand, but repairs can be attempted.
There's a man in a sweater vest slotting a blank wedge, a storage device, into the head of the chair. DeWitt says nothing to him, even if his early FitzSimmons-like excess of energy means a certain likelihood that he'd want to say something to her.]
First, we're going to make a copy of your mind as it is. The requisite backup of your original personality. It isn't painful. I hesitate even to describe it as uncomfortable, speaking from personal experience.
[It's only mildly unpleasant. After that, a clean wipe, and then the brain-mapping and installation of Active architecture: that last part is painful, but what he won't remember doesn't count.]