Birds, bees, mind-wipes

Gerry Quinn · 18 Nov 2011, 17:37 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:37:01 -0000
Subject: (urth) Birds, bees, mind-wipes
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From: James Wynn 
> Gerry Quinn wrote:

  >>Who was scanned to make Olivine, and how was the scan arranged?  Chems talk 
  >>to Silk about reproduction once or twice, and nobody mentions this part.

>That's a very good question. Equally puzzling is that chems can't create replacement 
> parts but two of them can build a whole chem from scratch. I presume a new chem's
>  personality is some kind of merging from its parents.

It?s not so easy:

[Marble] ?We had begun a child, a daughter.? She sighed again. ?It was hard, dreadfully hard, to find parts, or even things we could make them from. We never got far with her, and I don?t suppose she?ll ever be born unless my husband takes a new wife, poor little thing.?

It doesn?t say where the personality comes from.  In principle one of the needed parts could be a disk with somebody?s modified scan data, but I don?t know of anything to support the idea.  

- Gerry Quinn


 
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