From:	justinf@****.caltech.edu (Justin Fang)
Subject:	Re: New plot
Date:	Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:41:56 -0800 (PST)

Evan Hughes writes:
> Justin Fang writes:
> > > > with creating 'life' be that the spirit is an external entity (ie,
> > > > derived from the maternal parent? Paternal? Both? A rabbit? =) and is
> > > > not simply created by the genes? (OF course, if this is true, 98% of
> > > > my plots are fuqued)

> > Possible, but I don't see any real reason to belive this; it's not
> > mentioned in any FASA publication I've seen and it would mess up my plot.
> > Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume it's not true.

> It would add an interesting facet, and it would definitely give a good
> reason as to why it hadn't been done before.

How do we know it hasn't been done before?

> Say your folks had found a way to add that "spark" that the spirit forms
> out of? Or something like that...

Problem is, I don't think they'd be able to figure out how to do that. If
they have to research how to add the "spark of life" in addition to
everything else, they won't be able to get as far as I need them to get. I
suppose it's possible that they're doing something that causes the formation
of a spirit without realizing it... but I've already given them one fairly
hefty stroke of luck; I don't want to give them too many.

Although they *have* discovered that, at least in some cases, there is an
element of irreproducibility to the process... this might be related.

Justin Fang (justinf@****.caltech.edu)
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