Resleeving
Resleeving is a process by which human minds are converted to data, stored in a device known as a cortical stack, and then re-uploaded to a new brain. Through this process, humans can change the body that they live in, come back from death, experience life as pure data, rewrite the physical structures of brains, travel vast distances at the speed of light, and back up their consciousness using computer networks.
Utility
Resleeving is effectively immortality technology when combined with the ability to grow healthy adult bodies from exowombs. A human can be killed, and as long as their stack is not destroyed they can be brought back to life in a new body if the stack is retrieved.
Complexity
The cortical stack is a wonder of neuroscience and nanotechnology. It uses a complete mapping of every neuron inside of a single human's brain alongside a swarm of nanobots capable of disassembling and reassembling matter on a molecular level. The nanobots keep a current iteration of the victim's brain in the stack at all times, and is capable of rebuilding the brain's specific structure and shape from any brain matter. A stack can be implanted into a person other than its original owner, and it will restructure the brain of the new body to match the brain of its original owner.
Discovery
Resleeving was originally theorized in the early 2030s. However, the technology to actually implement didn't exist until the late 2060s, when research began in earnest. Resleeving was successfully done for the first time in 2071, using nanobots to rebuild the brain of a volunteer into the brain of a deceased person. Development on the cortical stack began in 2091, and was complete in 2099. Usage of the cortical stack became nearly unanimous after The Fall of Earth.
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