<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Alan Grimes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ALONZOTG@verizon.net" target="_blank">ALONZOTG@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I want to cover the subject of what it will actually be like to be an upload in extreme detail, accuracy, and honesty. To that end, I need to brush up on what the current claims are as to why it should be so great and, in the greatest possible detail, how it will work.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>One scene you could do: have an upload come across a former<br>chassis, possibly interleaved with memories of its destruction.<br>"I was killed...but I know who did it and exactly how. In theory,<br>
I can visit the same death upon them The difference? They<br>can't come back."<br></div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Bonus points if this wasn't the original biological chassis, the<br>death of which spurred the upload, but just another drone body -<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">and if this has happened before, so the protagonist has already<br>wrestled with the question of revenge.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As to the day to day operation, I'd suggest analogs to disabled<br>
people where the host is less capable than a human body - and<br>similar thoughts where the host is more capable. Either way,<br>the upload is "living with" new limits in exactly the same way<br>any normal human with a long term condition that impacts<br>
quality of life is "living with" it. (Lose an arm, and it'll be a week<br>until you get a replacement? You're one-handed for a week.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Super-strong? You learn - quickly - how to control it, so you're<br>
not wrecking your house; you almost certainly aren't still having<br>major accidents weeks later.)<br></div></div>