How can a single brain control multiple separate bodies simultaneously?

All work and all play makes Jack a distributed boy: Jack is at the hotel reception with his wife. Jack is also in the office, meeting with unspecified forces for inscrutable purposes. Jack is also in his smithy, forging a perfect Damascus-carbonite blade. All at the same time.

The basic question here is simple. I have successfully digitized a mind, now I want to give it the ability to control multiple instances of bodies in multiple physical locations simultaneously. I don't care whether the bodies are flesh or robotic. What I care is to hear some plausible explanation of how the brain architecture would have to be restructured to enable one entity to be successfully active in multiple locations simultaneously.

I think this would involve, at the very least:

• allow a person to focus on dozens of things at the same time, instead of just one or two;
• allow for balance and proper orientation of multiple bodies simultaneously;
• enable coordinated movement and speech by multiple bodies in multiple places;
• enable the person to remain(/appear?) recognizably human to the subjects of its flesh-based interactions; and
• the same entity must maintain control of all these instances at the same time, in a relatively synchronized fashion (i.e. no running separate un-synced instances).

In a recent question, I brought up the idea of markets for digital uploads, so feel free to visit that question for more details on how I envision the process of digital uploading working.

posted over 8 years ago

Serban Tanasa‭

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