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mapped likeness and also use the visual data to model the avatar's behavior.
Some behavior will be a standard model based upon specie characteristics. Get
with our AI buddies and program a fuzzy logic program that can maintain many
thousands of pet emulations for people to interact with online for a monthly
fee and a nominal setup fee that covers the expenses of setup and programming.

Trying seriously to make correlations between the fMRI data (and whatever
other available data) and the pet's behavior is the homage to serious research
that keeps an aire of respectability to the project. Have a standing offer to
upgrade ever closer to a real upload if possible as the science catches up. Of
course there will be a limit to this based upon lack of fMRI resolution at the
time of the pet's demise or just preceding. But after all, it is ONLY for
entertainment purposes and we make it known up front that those involved are
helping with the development of true uploading not only for pets but for
humans as well. This may expand to the point of actually performing
destructive, freeze and slice, uploading on recently departed pets. We might
be able to get the Cryonics organizations involved in helping to preserve the
pets for the process. Of course my own personal opinion is that destructive
uploading, for me at least, is less than ideal but perhaps still a possible a
last ditch save if all else fails. But this is aside from the point. Doing so
for this project will help to prove that assumption one way or another. It
also gets us free test animals.

But let's not forget option 3 uploading for this "money making project"
either. As we expand to closer to real over simulated entertainment pet
uploading, as the research enables, we may also become able to offer option 3
gradual prosthetic replacement for aging pets. Since this won't make them
physically bodily immortal, their other systems will eventually break down,
they will still become eventual candidates for uploading as well as possibly
even prior to demise augmentation. Would people like a better way to
communicate with Sparky? I see a chip that senses when Sparky needs a walk,
let's him out and monitors his wherabouts, etc. etc. How about Sparky's
personality downloaded to a robotic pet?

Well that's about it. More details can be hashed out here in this forum,
unless you all think the idea is total crap. Speaking of... what do you all
think of my just ten minutes ago flash of inspiration that I just made up as I
typed? Ready to incorporate? I suggest Delaware for a corporate headquarters.

James
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