In the near future, a scientific company has created a new form of technology that can scan and save a person’s brain functions for a limited period of time, thereby theoretically prolonging a person’s life. The specific intent behind this technology is to allow people who have healthy minds but who have terminal diseases to have their brains scanned and uploaded to a host who has a healthy body, but due to brain damage, is in a permanent comatose state.
First, a brain scan of a patient is completed and run through a database of comatose patients to find a compatible host. The higher the compatibility, the more success the patient has in easing into the host’s body. At least 60% compatibility is required for a match to be considered successful and to allow the patient to integrate into the host’s brain. Once a host that has a suitable brain compatibility with the patient is found, the patient’s brain scan is “downloaded” into the host’s brain, theoretically overwriting the unhealthy synapses of the brain and allowing the patient to live on in the host’s body.
Several successful test runs have been completed, and people who were facing a painful death sentence have been able to keep some semblance of normalcy in a new body. The patient’s brain has full control over the host’s body, and aside from a few changes in tastes, no abnormalities have been reported in the process. The patient’s legal status and age transfer with them, regardless of the age of the donor body, as the wisdom and experience of the patient are ultimately what classifies the host body’s “age.” The process is colloquially called “the Mind Store Machine Project.”
That having been said, the technology is still in its infancy, and as always with these sorts of situations, there are always all sorts of bugs that haven’t quite been worked out…