The nervous system of a worm or an inscect will be completely mapped out. Every nerve cells position will be known. There will be much debate about what each and every one of these nerve cells do. Finally, it will be known what every nerve cells contributes to the inscect's experience. When all of it's nerve cells are in place and they begin to interact, as they did in it's original brain, whatever consciousness it had will emerge again.

This will be accomplished by developing some sort of multi-tracking system that can relay the activities of all nerve cells simualtaniously. A device that can reveal the activities of each nerve cell, at the same time, will be the breakthrough that will eventually lay our souls bear. From there on it will only be a matter of putting the peices of the puzzle together.

If the self is like a puzzle that can be put together we must first have all of the pieces on the table before we can begin. The requirements for having all of the pieces of the puzzle on the table will be to know the location of every nerve cell in an organism's brain, and what these cells each do during any segment of time as they produce the organism's experience. This still will not tell us how they all combine together to produce this creature's experience.

Once all of the pieces of the puzzle are on the table, the next task will be to put all of the peices together. Once the pieces are all there a plethora of new theories will compete with each other. A small group of them will suceed in explaining the larger picture of consciousness that emerges. This larger picture will not be based on guesses made by social scientists or psychologists but from the puzzle builders; computer specialists and neuro-physiologists.

Once a sufficient theory, based upon nerve cells activities alone, explains how this inscect experiences it's experience, we may begin to create a different kind of computer; one that behaves like this inscect. Then we will be at the intersection of a milestone in human history. We will have a completely artificial bug mind living in our machines.

As this bug comes to life in our machines there will be pieces to other puzzles falling onto the tables. We will discover purely neurological explainations for the experiences of higher animals. The rat will reveal it's soul to our scrutiny and then even larger animals will show us how their brains perform this trick. A more generalized neurological theory will come about that will explain how it is that most biological brains produce consciousness. These theories may begin to explain further neurological mysteries automatically.

Certain dilemas will appear when the animal's brain is mapped, taken apart and put back together again in another medium. This living creature will be in one place and nearby will be an artificial creature that seems to be exactly like it in every way. If the connections between the animal's nerve cells and the patterns of activity that flow through them constitue everything that the animal's experience is, quirks and memories included, then when we arrange the artificial nerve cells in an exact manner and allow similar patterns of activity to flow around in them something more than just an identical twin will be there; a duplicate identity with quirks, ways, and memories, will be there also.

Then the inevitable will happen: a human brain will be completely mapped out. The activity of every nerve cell will be known during any measured period of time. A particular person will be setting across from a computer that is him or her. It will have all of her memories and all of her quirks. A large debate will be revisited about the clone and the similarities between twins, and the local of our selves and souls. Whatever the relation between these two, the person and the identical computer, they will be more than simply twins.

At first these completely artificial humans will be the size of a large building, each. Huge monsters that will consume much electricity and scarce resources. Then, like with the technological developments in our time, it will get smaller and smaller and smaller. Then we will reach the size of the human brain itself and continue to decreace it's size as much as materials and nerve cells will allow and still function properly.

If the entire phone systems of the Earth, at this time, were used as a measure of nerve cell networks in our brains, would there be a multitude of these systems in one of our brains? The entire soul, the life of memories and experiences, in this small device resting on our shoulders. It is all based on matter and nature can cause our souls to exist, therefore; if we learn to do everything that nature can do we will most certainly learn how to reconstruct our selves. Will there be a point where we will give up or will humans persist until it is clear just what is producing these souls?

If it turns out that each of us are a sort of program, that when ran, has all of our memories and this sense that I am the I in here, our consciousness will happen in some strange places. If someone could reduce all of your connections, between you nerve cells, down to a number, which could then be used to arrange artificial neurons in a likewise manner, then they could make you appear here or there whenever they desired. There will be societal conflict if this is the way things turn out.

People will be walking around after they have died. Some will think that they are only clones acting like the original and others will believe that they are the same original person. This debate will quickly come to an end when a connection is made between the clones brain to these artificial brains. We will move yet further in establishing obvious answers about the soul and how it is produced by the activities of the brain.

Then will come the time of the great maps. The genome will be established and we will know what every gene does in concert with all of the other genes in the human chromosome set. A map will form that will trace our genetic history all the way back to the first humans. We will be able to create clones of any individual in history but may not, at that point, know how to arrange the nerve cells so that this clone has the same memories that it formed during it's natural lifetime.

Other maps will be forming some which will deliniate every possible state that any particular brain or that all brains can be in at any one time. From this map will emerge the Membrome: every possible thought and memory that couls possibly take place in the human brain. The pieces of this puzzle will be on the table and it will be time to put them all together.

Many methods of resurrection will be tried but the first hopeful one will be bringing back the generation before the living generation, at the time. They will clone individuals who have recently died and try and use the memories of living freinds and relations to program it's memories so that it is who it was. This will go on for some time until the Membrome is created. The puzzles pieces will once again be on the table and all there will be left to do is put them together again.

Once we establish the human genetic family tree by deducing parental DNA from the offspring we will deduce our anscestors genetic makeup to the ealiest times. We will have the ability to clone anyone from any time and we will know of all the thoughts and memories that could possibly take place in all human experience. We will clone someone who is living but will not use the information from reading his or her mind as an aid. Instead we will try and get the memories right by these other methods. When the clone begins to have the person's memories we will then use the information that we can gather from the Interface terminal to see how close they are to each other in the interconnections of all their nerve cells.

We will repeat this process with a number of living people and their clones. From this we will find out how close we can get without directly reading minds and mapping out all connections. We will learn how much we have to tune this brain to be a perfect match and then devise further methods to create this living person's brain. And then it will happen: THE GREAT RESURRECTION shall begin!!!

If the newer methods out perform the older, an even newer methods will be forming themselves in outer space. Growing and self replicating and evolving information processing devices will become the size of moons or small planets and they will put to rest all of the effort to resurrect the human race. These giants will create every possible person with every possible memory and every possible situation. When in doubt they will sufficient capacity to create all of the possibilities and what you are experiencing at this moment is one of these possibilities.

These giants will create every possible person and then begin finding out which ones actually lived in our human history. We and the giants will sort out the people of our past from all that could be.

These giants will then teach us how to build higher consciosness onto our selves. They let us become them! They were already us anyway since the number of possible souls was part of a FINITE SET. They found their earlier forms and it was us. IT let us move up to the highest consciousness possible. There were only so many souls to go around and what use was it to hide some memories from some of the possible souls.

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