What Are You Reading 2013 - Page 84

"Post-Human Beings is the next level of the evolution of human beings. Supported by artificial intelligence, one of the characteristics of a phoebe is its ability to divide itself into many copies with various levels, tasks and levels of autonomy, each of which can be tasked with analyzing and dealing with parts of reality. Another characteristic is the ability to transform both their bodies and minds."

Another interesting concept is the ability to simulate the future behaviour/decisions of your interlocutor based on their behaviour in real time (which we do all the time, but we have very limited computing power because of our "bioware"), as well as countermeasures to that - behaviour randomizer, i.e. a programme/mask that masks your behaviour, giving misleading clues to people you're talking to.

Yet another interesting idea is the need to preserve the humanity as a state of mind/culture, which leads to the creation of respective human Traditions. E.g. the First Tradition is the closest to regular human being as we know them. The STAHS (Standard Homo Sapiens) are only allowed to have a single bioware manifestation (i.e. body) and manage a single concious manifestation at a time (when you connect to the Plateau (future "Internet" if you will) to do business or whatever, your primary manifestation, aka body, goes into stand-by mode - similar to what happens when you go to sleep; yourself in a dream = your new manifestation, dream = Plateau), but you're allowed to make backups of your fren (i.e. mind/psyche/personality). If the Tradition hadn't been preserved, humanity would've lost track of what it means to be a human being, in its pursuit towards the ultimate intelligence.