Memories by Satoshi Kon
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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I have a schizoid-personality desire to get my brain put in a toaster-sized robot/cyborg body (with VR/AR headspace that is... skeuomorphic? Using sensors from the body and designed to match real counterparts), helping humans in 200+ years from now doing something in the sea/space/infrastructure etc. Aside from all the normal impossibility (cryo viability, cyborg tech, cost/availability in general) there, that is assuming there is a point to that over AI.
So yeah, not far from a pocket dimension.
You read the bobiverse books?
I've heard of it (a few times like this) but no I haven't read it.
I'm not really into the idea of mind uploading/clones (that's why I said put my brain in) at least not as I exist (and as society runs/doesn't) currently.
There is a lot of media that overlaps with the general idea of the type of lifestyle I'm imagining, especially anything where the robot (buddy) characters (treated like real characters/people) could have a brain.
Farscape has a living ship (although at one point a string of bad things happens to Moya, not that it's unexpected given the plot).
Spoiler kinda (it's chill though, and not even fully explained) but one of the characters in Bee&Puppycat lives (relatively) normally most of the show and sometimes something is hinted at or capability/nature briefly shown.
Well that and it being escapist fantasy, pretty much any post-scarcity setting (medical scanner/autodoc type stuff, existing is not a chore) works too.