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"in 1974 I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Colloid Dielectric | ||
| A non-living receptacle for a human mind. |
Transferring your mind to some sort of otherwise inert brain of an immortal robot?
| "Out in my
laboratory I have the completed and
tested robot body exactly like my
own, all ready for the transfer of
my mind. I could go out there
right this minute, and come in again
in less than half an hour in that immortal mechanical body."
 ('One for the Robot - Two for the Same...' by Rog Philips) "I don't care," Paula's voice said doggedly. "I don't care if you never finish. It's inhuman anywayto discard the body you were born in and transfer the electronic pattern of your mind and consciousness to a mass of non-living colloid dielectric perched inside the head of a robot made of stainless steel bones, plastic muscles, and copper nerves. |
| Technovelgy from One For The Robot - Two For The Same...,
by Rog Philips. Published by Imagination in 1950 Additional resources -
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Fans of Star Trek the original series will remember the transfer scene from What Little Girls Are Made Of (1967), written by famous science-fiction and horror author Robert Bloch. This episode has very similar plot elements to One for the Robot - Two for the Same....
(Transfer scene from 'What Little Girls Are Made Of' by Gene Roddenberry)
Compare to robot with human brain from Revenge of the Robot (1936) by Otis Adelbert Kline and metamen from The Mechanical Monarch (1958) by E.C. Tubb.
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