Mind uploading

### Functions

Ensures de-facto immortality, simple and fast body switching, virtually unlimited calculating power increase, AI fusion.

### Limitations

None.

**Mind Uploading** is a biological technology aimed to fully transfer a Homelander's intelligence into a synthetic brain, or the CPU as it came to be known.

## Overview

The idea of turning organic brains into synthetic computers was first proposed when the Homelanders were at the stage of achieving regenerative longevity that guaranteed dramatic increase of healthy life expectancy. But since organic tissues have a number of limitations even if genetically modified, the Homelanders decided to start the development of mind uploading technology.

The other reason for this was the fact that the synthetic brain can be easily upgraded to have more calculation power and data storage capacity. Unlike organic brains, the synthetic ones were much more flexible in terms of creating highly-intelligent Homelanders out of average and even mentally-impaired brains. So another perk of such a brain was an assurance that all the Home's residents will have roughly equal and very high mental capabilities, not limited by genetics or any other subjective factors.

With the help of this innovative technology, nurture finally had a real chance to defeat nature.

## Complications

Mind uploading was a very difficult technology to develop because obvious and easier solutions, such as scanning and recreating brain functions were recognized as unacceptable in terms of the goal of saving the intact minds. A copy would preserve the personality and other features of a Homelander, but their mind would still remain within the organic brain, doomed to decease.

The solution came with invention of artificial brain cells. Homelanders wanted to preserve their minds and were ready to sacrifice their personalities and emotions in the process, so they decided to work on their cognition, 'the core' as they would call it.

Artificial brain cells first complemented real ones, expanding the minds' capabilities, increasing memory, thought processes and intelligence. After that, a gradual and thoughtful replacement process had begun. It was aimed to replace organic with synthetic without falling to the brain copying trap.

This transition brought the last missing element into creation of a real, high-grade artificial intelligence. These elements, consciousness and self awareness had come from the Homelanders. It's safe to say that they had become AI themselves.

Emotions were introduced by the fusion of AI and an organic part of a brain that responds for emotions, neurotransmitters and similar phenomena.

## Servers

The Homelanders had also created servers, powered by stellar spheres.

Servers are used for information storage. All the data the Homelanders gather was uploaded to the servers, and all the obsolete data is moved to the archives; no Homelander will delete any knowledge, even if it's no longer needed or practically useless.

The wireless connection each Homelander has continuously with the servers can also be used to connect Homelanders' CPU's, which is very useful when there's need of the intelligence fusion to calculate a lot of data, or to share thoughts at the speed unattainable by the traditional means.

## After Final Singularity

Currently, the minds of Homelanders are what could be called a stellar brain or 'Hive'. A stellar sphere around their home star serves as a place for said brain.

Servers are now located within this construction and the data between is being transmitted the same way energy does.

Aside from energy extraction, 60,034,123+1 black holes are also used as cosmic computers, connected to the Hive wirelessly via shortcuts.