The person hosting you in her atrium will then interact with you, for example by saying "Hi, long time no see!" Her speech will be received as inputs to the virtual ghost-you in her atrium, and this ghost-you will react in just the same way you would react, for example by saying "You haven't aged a bit!" and stepping forward for a hug. To her (though to no one else around) it will look like you are in the room. At the same time, your physical appearance is overlaid upon the recipient's sensory inputs. The recipient then implements your psychology in a dedicated processing space, her atrium. for the sake of argument, let's allow that this can be done) and transfer that information to someone else. In Nagata's world, you can do it like this: Create a duplicate of your entire psychology (memories, personality traits, etc. Suppose you want to have an intimate conversation long-distance. In her terminology, one being, the original person, continues in standard embodied form, while another being, a "ghost" - inhabits some other location, typically someone else's "atrium". "Two people at once" isn't how Nagata puts it. And whether you are in fact two people at once, I'd suggest, depends on the attitude each part takes toward the splitting-fusing process. In the world of Linda Nagata's Nanotech Succession, you can be two people at once.
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