Uzobono wrote:Glad you caught that bit Ghosthand

, sometimes writing this length of story at one point or another I forget to double check for consistency, but you're right, the "formatting" should always be done *before* the download/reprogramming, unless somehow the downloaded data/personality was "set aside" or partitioned someway while the original mind was wiped.
I actually am going with Agent Haven (with an AI integrated in her brain) as per your second idea (albeit a bit different), though what you suggest is definitely interesting, would a person/heroine *still* be loyal to her allies/friends if she's "upgraded" so to speak? Or would she want to share her "gift" with others?
I think that question is assuming that the person/heroine is now an AI, but that is not necessarily the case. That would depend totally on their new OS so to speak. At the simplest level they would just be a computerized robot with a large amount of data in their memory. They would respond to orders and requests on their memory just like your desktop doing what their user protocols define.
The other end of the scale would be the full AI. Although they would start their ‘life’ going by the protocols initially set in their programming they could evolve past those, discarding certain ones once they have outgrew them. This would be a very dangerous type of robot woman and I couldn’t see any normal mad scientist creating this unless they were trying to create a new form of life or had ways to make sure they were in control of this being. Of course they could just be a really insane scientist

I would think that most scientists would opt for something in between, a controllable robot woman with a human emulator program that emulated their original personality for duplicity or a new personality as a villain, servant, or just a play toy.
Now to really confuse the issue what would happen if you restored the full human brain back into a robotic mind? Would the mind reject the emotions and feelings as faulty programs or be able to evolve enough to accept the concept of a chaotic universe? That might be opening a can of worms way too deep for this story site though
