The most interesting story I have read recently.
The story is titled, "The Discovered Country", by Ian R. MacLeod. It was a really cool story about people being able to fully transfer their minds into software and live in a virtual world like the matrix. There are even synthetically created beings in this world called chimera's that simply function to keep the virtual world running for the "dead" people living there. It made me wonder what life really is. If these computer programs could really be considered living things or just very detailed models of the people that used to be alive. What would it take to transfer a person's mind into software? What computing resources are needed in order to keep the simulation of their life running forever? Really cool story. I enjoyed every minute of it. And to think that there are people in real life already trying to gather a band of scientists to make this happen in 20 years! ha ha crazy!
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