Dudes, did you even saw CC's intro? It's clearly stated that separating brain from body made travelling to another planets possible. There is no word about faster than light travelling, so I suppose the brains can be kept alive almost indefinitely. I'd gladly remove my brain from this pathetic flesh to travel to stars... and scrap some Dummies

No.

Physical issues aside, wouldn't the whole multiple bodies thing have some negative psychological side effects? Identity issues and the like.
Also netbook keyboards are awful.

Identity issues?
Please elaborate.
I can't seem to fathom any sort of theory on how that could be possible.

It's really a matter of if the brain can handle multiple bodies.
Bodies can affect thinking. Hormones and such exist. But even if those are taken care of, there is the question of if the brain can understand at a low level, that at one instant it can have a body that totally ignores threats, and in the next instant a body that must run.
A person can logically understand they are in a different body. But what about their reflexes, emotional responses, and other things that might not be able to understand multiple bodies well?

Anyway, we really can't know if it will be an issue until it can become an issue.

The brain is used to having 2 arms, 2 eyes, 2 legs, etc. Changing this number has a tendency to cause nasty side effects (see phantom limb pain). This shouldn't be a problem if the brain only controls 1 body at any given time and sufficient senses are hooked up to the body to fool the brain into thinking "I'm not in a jar, I'm in a body!"

Or one could feed it the enviroment like a dream.
Ofcourse with turning that "nasty stuff failsafe" into a "nasty wound failsafe".

Uh, hey guys.
You know how it takes a bit to adapt to playing as a character in any given game?
Input methods, suitable tactics etc?

Yeah, it's like that, but with more in-depth control of the body's machinery. Or not, hell, an AI is probably better at aiming a gun than a human mind, fallible and fuzzy.

Soooo. Yeah, we can already imagine what it's like to control many different bodies with one brain. Isn't the point of good human interface devices to get out of the way and become as transparent as possible?

If you have printed bodies that are made exactly the same, then one could adapt to the body once and never have to do so again with the same kind of body.

I don't think there'd be a serious problem with having a different bodytype besides the learning curve for balance and controlling extra "muscles". Frogs don't have much a problem with losing a limb and gaining four more, and there's more examples than just that in nature.Evolution doesn't cause a small change in the body and echo the exact same control change in the brain, it came up with a brain that learns to handle whatever body it's in at the time; which also helps if, say, you lose a limb and have to learn to move around without it.

On the other end of the spectrum, there was a study a few years back, seeing if they could get a robot arm to exactly match the movements of a monkey's real arm just by reading a brainwave pattern. Once they got that down, they set the robot arm in the same environment of the monkey, to see if it could learn to use that robot arm to solve tasks by moving it's real arm to grab invisible objects. Instead, in the first session, the monkey learned to move it's real arm and robot arm separately; since it couldn't affect the programming of the robot arm, that means it immediately created new 'control software' for it's actual arm, and used the 'old version' to control the unchanging robot arm.

And as Solace stated and a few others there is a very high chance that the brain could just adapt to the body change, we got some damn smart brains man...



-5) What would you prefer:
(A) running around wreaking havoc on planet CC (as a loner) with your brain intact (with any body of choice -except monster sized ones-) so no one can take down your brain apart from your knowledge cause its inside your body.

OR

(B) controlling a small base with your regular squad of soldiers of your faction which you control and use to defend your encased brain screwed to a ceiling, and in this way you intend to climb the ranks.

Note the vital differences...

(A) -short crazy life span - still had your brain disembodied but stuck to a body of your choice, living alone.

(B)-long life span - living disembodied in the way it was intended to be.

-please note 50% general vote to each option is a highly preferred outcome in the end - don't just go on what Ive said, make up your own mind about these two options.


Ok so I'm posting this just to enrage you all.
A) The Brain Cells age too
B) The brain cells don't replace themselves as normal cells do
C) So basically your screwed, because whats the use you disembody your brain just to let it die from old age 3 years after your body has died (from old age).
D) I did not say this.

User was warned for not using the edit button - Seraph

There wouldn't be any lag when using your numerous bodies, as long as the CC universe accepts/has advanced quantum binding technology.


As far as A goes, someone could still kill you easily. And why be a loner? You could live in a community while still living in a body instead of a fortress, just look at the Ronin. Why would you not live as long? Your skull could be specially modified to have longevity providing juices or whatever.

And I pick (C) None of the above. (Live in peace.)

But If I really had to choose it would be (B).

Modify them then.

If you've a lot of cells (brain cells) that don't replace themselves through mitosis, then what's the worry of aging? All long as you kept the little glass jar perfectly sanitary and the brain fed, I can't see any reason why an extreme sci-fi universe can't keep a brain sitting comfortably forever.

And like it's been mentioned somewhere around Datarealms before: who said it was a human brain you're playing as, controlling all of those meat sacs?

Good point, and mabey one can even transfere your conteousness and memories to the alien brain which may survive longer than your human brain would...