Based on the brainstorm begun here, and further informed by the copy and paste of a face exhibited here, here’s a proposal for a Mind Borrowing Machine. There are mind donors and mind consumers. The mind donors are extraordinary people, like Buddhist monks, Rock musicians, athletes, celebrities, and other inspirational folks who are willing to share their unique minds to their devoted and mindful fans.
Ozzie could be a mind donor
The mind donors would don an EEG cap or other brain scanning device that would record their brain patterns while doing what they do best. For example, Ozzie would be recorded while on stage at the climax of his peculiar type of ecstatic madness, and Meb Keflezighi would be recorded while running a marathon. However, a Buddhist monk would be brain scanned while in meditation, since only monks can truly be at peace, and meditation is their particular field of mind expertise.
A mind donor monk
These mind patterns would be recorded into digital format and made available via download, pay-per-view, or as a consumer good to be purchased over-the-counter at the local bodega and traded with friends.
A mind download
Mind consumers would purchase their own consumer-level brain-scanning cap with a slot where they can plug in someone else’s mind cassette. The consumer would plug in a cassette with Ozzie’s or the Buddhist monk’s mind map, and they would enter into a sort of biofeedback loop with the selected mind donor.
A consumer plugged into the Buddhist monk's mind
Through the data emitted by their own brains and that of the selected mind donor, consumers train their own minds to mirror the brain patterns of Ozzie or the monk, or whichever other mind donor they choose as a reference. Over time, consumers will learn to quickly synchronize their own brain patterns to the brain patterns of their favorite donors.
Mind feedback software
Eventually, consumers can have a library of minds to choose from. A mind for every mood.
A collectible mind library
Following the natural evolution and democratization of technology, once the Mind Borrowing Machine proves itself technologically, there’s no reason why everyone couldn’t eventually be able to become both mind donor and mind consumer. After all, everyone is special.