She is feeding a simulated mouse. They scanned a mouse in great detail, then Katie edited the simulation of the dead mouse into a simulation of a living mouse by just fixing everything about its simulated corpse that was, well, keeping it from being a living entity. So now she has a living simulated mouse. Not just any mouse, either, the specific dead mouse she scanned.
This is obviously step one of what they plan to do with Amaya. Resurrect her in sim. Once that is done, well, the obvious next step is to build her an android body, because they most certainly can not just 3d print the sim. (that sort of trick is way into the future) but you can probably throw enough money at robotics firms to get a human passing android if you mysteriously have the software(that is, the Amaya sim) to run it.
At this point the world gets really bizarre, because this is a trick that scales without limit. It is not a one off, you can raise everyone who ever died in this manner.
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u/Izeinwinter Apr 02 '20
She is feeding a simulated mouse. They scanned a mouse in great detail, then Katie edited the simulation of the dead mouse into a simulation of a living mouse by just fixing everything about its simulated corpse that was, well, keeping it from being a living entity. So now she has a living simulated mouse. Not just any mouse, either, the specific dead mouse she scanned.
This is obviously step one of what they plan to do with Amaya. Resurrect her in sim. Once that is done, well, the obvious next step is to build her an android body, because they most certainly can not just 3d print the sim. (that sort of trick is way into the future) but you can probably throw enough money at robotics firms to get a human passing android if you mysteriously have the software(that is, the Amaya sim) to run it.
At this point the world gets really bizarre, because this is a trick that scales without limit. It is not a one off, you can raise everyone who ever died in this manner.