This presents many beneficial possibilities for the future, too. Something I’ve really garnered from Ramsey Dukes has been that the only thing fearing the future leads to is paranoia. Embrace this and think of it as a gift. When you play a game, back in the day, you used to get one life, one character, one story.

Now unless the people of today are really connecting with the Self, they’re still just playing with that one life, one story. Their representation of themself, as ego, is a constructed reflection of social stimuli and the odd personal experience, adding a touch of flavour. This data body seems interesting from a transhumanist point of view because it allows you to create more than one player for yourself.

While I am intrigues to learn more, as the only way to learn to play with multiple data bodies would be to initially become aware of the Self as pilot, the fragmentation possible by the malleable way of approaching these data bodies should allow for more glimpses between the cracks — more abstractions of perspective and, ultimately, a chance to look beyond the looking glass. Sorta reminds me of the new Nine Inch Nails song, “Right Where It Belongs.”

There can never be absolute oppression of relation to the Self. It’s not possible. Balance seems to be the natural way, and we just have to look at the benefits of using this new development to construct methods of ontological awareness.

Also, I am a firm believer that we are on the verge of downloadable memories, experiences, and such, so the whole notion of how we interact with our egos are about to go to shit anyhow. It’s going to be a Lego session of building up our own stories and as we do so, we’ll become more and more disillusioned what constructs we’re enslaved by.

That`s the term I was looking for.

“Wherever I go I ask audiences if anybody there would swear that they would tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to someone who was a government employee. Nobody ever raises their hand! Everybody lies to the government. We all want as little to do with them as possible. So that’s the first level of government corruption; the accumulation of all the lies people tell to people just above them in the hierarchy.”
- Robert Anton Wilson

Taking that into consideration, one way to subvert a Data Body would be to corrupt it by leaving inconsistant information.

If you track your submitted information, like finding a mole, you can then trace back the origin of the person who is using your Data Body by the cyphered information you left in your data.

If someone is attepmting to use your Data Body against you in court for example, the uncollaborative information would fall inconclusive.

In the end it all depends on the amount of clout that people allow this virtual ego / shadow.

Consider the power we`ve allowed to 2 dimensional data in the past, compaired to the 3 dimensional data with consatant bio, dna, face and movement recongnition that is evolving daily.

Maximum Overdrive?? It was about big 18 wheelers coming to life or something… Emilio Estevez was in the movie, I think.