I was going to say “hey, this reminds me a lot of Terasem” and then sure enough you reference them right away!
I’m pretty sympathetic to this idea, to the point that at one time I was working our writing a story where a key feature would be what I called “book people” who are dead people kept “alive” by a team of a dozen or so people who collectively simulate them with the aid of books to serve as long term memory. Similar ideas have popped up elsewhere in science fiction.
I unfortunately don’t have time to look at this closely right now, but skimming through I see you cover a lot of ground in one place, and I don’t think these ideas have been pulled together in one place before in this way, so thank you for doing that!
Thanks! It seems that the opportunity to revive a person’s mind via “viral autobiography” seems to be under-explored, but your idea is something like this :)
I was going to say “hey, this reminds me a lot of Terasem” and then sure enough you reference them right away!
I’m pretty sympathetic to this idea, to the point that at one time I was working our writing a story where a key feature would be what I called “book people” who are dead people kept “alive” by a team of a dozen or so people who collectively simulate them with the aid of books to serve as long term memory. Similar ideas have popped up elsewhere in science fiction.
I unfortunately don’t have time to look at this closely right now, but skimming through I see you cover a lot of ground in one place, and I don’t think these ideas have been pulled together in one place before in this way, so thank you for doing that!
Thanks! It seems that the opportunity to revive a person’s mind via “viral autobiography” seems to be under-explored, but your idea is something like this :)