Mind Transfering
Continuity is the single most important aspect to most people - regardless of its inability to be truly known whether or not the consciousness that wakes from your sleeping body is truly yourself or merely a new identical copy, and is thus almost identical in perception when a mind wakes in a new body, many find the concept of maintaining their current consciousness at all points to be important above all else.
Mind Transferring is just that, the capability to move a mind from body, to machine, to body again, all without ever going under.
Utility
The ability to switch bodies has a potentially endless amount of use-cases. Multiple personal bodies to switch between, each with its own appearance, similar to clothes. Spies able to blend in as anyone, no ties to a previous life or time, a truly fully new individual. A body dying, horrific radiation scaring its DNA, only for the mind to survive in a pre-made backup copy.
The most common use for Mind Transferring however, while difficult to truly be completely accurate, is likely "trading." Body-Trading is the act of simply two consenting individuals to willing wish to occupy the others' body, potentially permanently - this practice is typically done to change species or appearances as it is much cheaper and easier to do so, provided that you can find an individual that wishes to swap with you.
Manufacturing
Mind Transferring is relatively easy.
When transferring a mind to a new body, you first rig the body of the mind into a digital interface that is capable of sustaining an entire mind, typically 2 zetabytes of data, but the medium usually has an extra 2 just in case; said storage medium is given basic senses of hearing, sight, and touch in order to ensure that the process is going smoothly, and to maintain the illusion of continuity. In this process, the mind feels their senses with the body they occupy and the medium as temporarily overlapping, usually being extremely disorienting as they gain an additional source of sight and sound - almost all individuals during this step close their eyes on their body instinctively so they can focus through the new medium.
When the senses are linked, the actual transferring process begins. The mind of the individual is slowly copied and actively updated to their current mind sustained by their own body, until the medium and body have the same neural structure and activity - purely technically, this is identical to the cloning process of brains, without the link being severed between the two, two minds acting as one, only aware of their situation, but feeling no actual difference. After fully synced, the body of the mind is numbed to complete unconsciousness, the individual feeling extremely sleepy, until only their senses through the medium exist. At this point, the link is severed, and the new mind fully believes itself to be the original, and in a way, it is.
Important note: At this point, if the original body of the mind is not killed or forced into brain death, it can and will wake up eventually, acting no different from before. Please remember to kill the body, or keep it numbed until a new mind is transferred into the body.
Once the mind is within the storage medium, begin the same process, but from the digital medium hooked into a brain-dead body. The body's brain does not need to be reshaped to match the original individual, as most personality traits are formed from conscious and subconscious memories, and this process will automatically reform those neurons, but inherent proclivities such as taste in music, food choices, preferences of genres, general line of thought, and in some cases, who they love, may change. Because of this, the body's mind should be reformed beforehand, typically done with nanobots to simply copy the brain structure of the original individual and copy it into the new body, but digital minds may need custom-made brains if being transferred to meat-bodies.
In cases of simply one body to another with only one individual, and not a Body-Trade, this process can be done, skipping the medium, binding the senses of the bodies together instead of the medium itself.
And that's it! It's really that easy!
Social Impact
The concept of mind transferring may have once been the topic of vehement discussion. Questions like "Couldn't this be used to steal other people's lives?" or "Could a copy of the individual be kept without their knowledge?" or "What do you mean 'preserve the illusion of continuity?'" But now, there are cybersites dedicated to finding a "Body-Trading Partner," vendors which will make you a brain-dead biological or mechanical body to transfer into, or simply entire virtual spaces you can live in without ever needing a physical body again.
Access & Availability
Mind Transferring, while a mechanically difficult thing to do, has been automated almost completely, to the point of only needing an operator to keep the patients calm and walk them through the process.
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