Its interesting to think our bodies could be replaced cell by cell using nano technology. The science is advancing rapidly. Our physical bodies could be 'replaced' by nano cells being deployed and individually replicating all our human cells through to our brain. This would create greater resilience across 'humankind.' Disease would be no more and nano cells could operate at new efficiency.
I question the notion of 'humans being' when the biology of these new bodies would retain no trace of their original human state.
I think the notion of a 'trace' becomes blurred when you input the trace into digital form. Therefore trace should react like the physical state and decay 'naturally' through the constant of time.
I have been working in the darkroom over the weekend and it made me think of the tangibility of a photograph an its natural decay over time. Photography has become digitalized similar to the concept D.L.F has put forward to us. Taking a photo (capturing light), developing the film and then the prints is such a unique interaction with the physical world.
I feel this intimate process would be impossible to synthesize in the digital realm of the 4th world we intend to create.
The trace of a memory of a person should be similar to a photo degrading over time.
As a digital image or representation the trace is secured for indefinite length of time as numbers and binary code.
"The problem comes in thinking that we are somehow sufficiently separate from our brains that those brains can tell us what to do or vice versa. Your brain, for better or for worse, is just the mechanism for being you."
If no longer need our bodies, we just need a protective sheild and an external energy source.
I did this quick image on photoshop to show a snail shell over a brain. Our brain leaves traces of knowledge behind similar to that of a snails slime trail.
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