Kat Wrote:^I'm not sure it's as simple as that, though. If it were just a matter of transferring consciousness, then why would the user's body need to be pulled into the laser at all? Couldn't the laser just take their "mind" and leave the body, and transfer the mind into the computer (like they do in the Matrix, actually. One's body doesn't actually go into the Matrix, just one's consciousness). The fact that the body also has to go must mean something.
(Or I suppose it may just mean Disney found it too creepy of an idea to leave an empty body slumped over a keyboard as if dead, but let's try not to look at it from a "real-world movie-making practicality inspires plot" viewpoint, 'cause that makes it less fun) |
excellent point kat.
the laser digitization process was originally invented
by (gibbs and lora tron 1) the method was still in
its
infancy and they only wanted to know if its possible
to digitize and un-digitize objects hence the experiments.
the inventors
did not know how to do it with humans yet.
allan: you two having fun disintegrating things down here?
gibbs: its not disintegrating allan -digitizing. the
laser dismantles the molecular structure of the object
and molecules remain suspended in the laser beam then
when the computer plays out the model like the molecules
fall back into place and walah
allan: (joking) hmm great can it send me to hawaii
lora: yeah. but you gotta purchase your program
30 days in advance.
what the first movie
did not show -but the
book
expounded on, was that the MCP was also
very interested
in the process, and that the MCP with its vast
intelligence
managed to work out the entire process
of how to safely digitize a human.
you are
entirely correct in thinking that
there is an air of mystery surrounding the process
and the MCP's knowledge of the entire process makes
it both more nefarious and mysterious
it is entirely possible finesse the implications of
the process more -or even attempt a new interpretation
as long as our new interpretations can also reconcile some
scenes in the movie
things we need to take into account to finesse our interpretations
or attempt new interpretations:
1. we need to reconcile sam un-digitizing in the real
world in his original clothes.
2. flynn was digitized in tron 1 and appeared already
garbed in warrior clothes.
3. flynn's body in tron 1 can absorb massive amounts
of digital energy (scene where flynn diverts energy junction
for solar sailer)
4. bleeding of sam in disk wars.
5. user bodies being more resilient to damage than
ordinary programs (sam in light cycle battle)
6. digital food -all that food has to go somewhere
well... maybe not #6 tho i've been to some discussion
groups that refuse to swallow the whole food thing
thoughts?
speculations:
in quorra's case - if she is now a
triple-helix-dna-person that
can
bleed - what happens when she returns to the grid?
will the system put her in a body that
bleeds
or an
iso body that derezzes?
btw returning quorra in an iso body implies that
the system still has the capability to make isos.
we can also ask - can the system be
coaxed into
putting a user consciousness into an iso body then un-digitize that
iso body into a triple-helix-human body? (on the
assumption that having a triple helix is a good thing)
side note
with your permission - i'd also like to use your
interpretation/visualization of the consciousness
transfer as a jumping point for addition to
my abstraction comment and the need for
writers to ensure a common vision that they can share
with the viewers.
but it's a real-world concern so i'll do it in
a new reply/comment.
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