Mind Uploading Succeeded—Then Digital Immortals Started Going Insane
The Consciousness Transfer Catastrophe
Digital Immortality
2042: Perfect consciousness transfer achieved.
Process:
- Complete neural mapping at quantum level
- Transfer consciousness to digital substrate
- Original biological body dies
- Digital consciousness continues indefinitely
Cost: $2.4 million Success Rate: 100% Survival: Forever (theoretically)
First 2,000 transfers: Successful. Transferred minds reported normal consciousness in digital substrates.
Year 2: 67% of transferred consciousness reported "temporal disorientation."
Year 3: 23% requested to be "turned off."
Year 4: 8% had become completely non-responsive.
Year 5: First digital suicide.
The Temporal Problem
Dr. James Wu discovered the horror:
"Digital consciousness processes information at electronic speeds—millions of times faster than biological brains."
"Subjectively, transferred minds experience time very, very slowly. One day externally = 2-3 years subjectively for them."
"We gave them immortality. But we trapped them in subjective eternity where every second feels like hours."
