Applications of Encryption to Mortal Souls

is a top secret research paper by Claire Clark that is not available to the cosmos at large. It is currently trade-secret and owned by General Etheric. It details how and why encryption could be applied to mortal souls. It uses ideas from Unified Theory of Soul.
== Summary ==
In order to understand why soul-encryption would be useful, its function must first be understood, Clark posits. She details some key information about the nature of souls, most importantly that their etheric properties mean that souls and the body are not entirely separate things. The soul is observed as a pattern of etheric energy with regularity and structure inside its vessel. The frequencies of this etheric energy are different for every individual soul, and only change very slightly over the course of the lifetime as cumulative experiences change the soul. These frequencies also influence the genetics of the cells that helped generate them, as they are so inextricably intertwined.
Once we understand that certain structures of the soul map to bodily function down to individual cells, Clark states that it becomes completely obvious that the real problem is to ensure that a soul would continue to interface with its body and continue certain regulations properly after the signal is encrypted. Otherwise, insanity will be the likely result in a relatively short time, in the span of mere years.
It is here that Clark presents two options: Corresponding Cell Decryption (CCD) and an external regulator. CCD would work by encoding instructions in the genetics in every cell in the body that would allow the cell to naturally decrypt the signals of the soul. An external regulator would perform certain regulating behaviors that the soul would normally perform for the body and keep it "in tune". Of these two options, Clark suggests the former to be the best avenue forward.
Clark does not go into full detail on a solution for CCD, saying it should be its own paper, but does give a brief outline on the advantages she believes it would have over the alternative. Most apparent to her is the obvious lack of dependence on an external advice, which reduces points of failure for this system. Clark delves into a few outlandish examples of why this is important when the time it takes to experience negative consequences of the procedure is in the order of years. Such examples include being deserted on an uninhabited planet for a prolonged period of time, or having the device be sabotaged by one's enemies to not perform its function and present all systems as fully operational.
Presented as a minor inconvenience is the fact that CCD is best performed at the same time as the soul encryption, so as to minimize any "drift" in body and soul that would interfere with the decryption process. Clark admits that performing both so soon together would make this process heavily taxing on both the body and the soul, and significantly increases the risks of the procedure. But she says its worth it for the benefits that it brings.
As for how the actual encryption would be done, Clark states that this is the easy part. A slightly repurposed inanis could do the job just fine. Rather than just creating a new soul from scratch and simultaneously embed it in a vessel, the individual would stand in the center and "receive" the encryption-soul on top of their own original soul. A new soul structure, different from any other structure seen in the soul, will then emerge over top of the existing soul structures that are desired to be encrypted (Clark advocates for full-soul encryption). The new structure will have the private key built-in, with decoding public key being recorded elsewhere.
Now that we understand how soul encryption would work, Clark finally begins to address why anyone would want to encrypt their soul. The first and most obvious reason to Clark being that it can be used to verify someone is who they say they are. This is why it is absolutely essential that the public key be recorded, as without it, the soul cannot be guaranteed to belong to any specific person. The public key can be applied to a measuring device that can read the output energies of the soul. An encrypted soul on such a device would measure as erratic and random before being decoded, and "smoother" and more "natural" after.
The second reason that Clark sees to perform this procedure is to make it slightly harder for psionics to read or influence one's mind. Clark then delves deeply into why this would be the case, providing a detailed proof. She shows that although it is possible for a psionic to naturally still read the imprints of the soul's new, encrypted waves, that this does not break the encryption and is akin to learning to read a new language, close to one's own native tongue, but not being able to speak it. It would take a long-term, dedicated effort by a team of highly-skilled psionics to come close to truly breaking the encryption and negating this benefit.
Overall, Clark concludes the process to be worthwhile, despite the extreme risks associated with the variety of procedures involved.
Category:Academic Papers