| From: | Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Bioware: could it evolve on it's own? [was: Muscle |
| Date: | Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:48:04 -0400 |
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At 10:33 AM 10/2/98 -0400, Fixer wrote:
>->It'd have to be pretty alien, seeing as how bioware doesn't cost
>->essence (yet), even though it mostly consists of organs that could
>->have never evolved on their own, and these organs make the user's
>->physiology do things that it simply would not be capable of on it's
>->own (even though the bioware uses natural physiological responses
to
>->achieve it's goals).
>
> Actually, I believe the line is that "eventually" (maybe
millions
>of years from now, but that's still eventually) we could 'mutate' to
have
>these organs naturally, but this company is giving them to us now.
To me at least, bioware seems too highly specialized. Take this bit of
shadowtalk from Dr. Martin:
"When bioware is grown, the altered genetic commands are designed
optimally to produce the augmented organ. Nothing else is a concern.
In this process, the rest of the growth medium (i.e., host body) may
undergo all sorts of side effects that would hamper normal human
development."
Then of course, once the bioware organ is harvested from it's host
body, and implanted into a functioning human being, it puts stress on
the metabolic processes of that human, this is what body index is.
In my take of it, the chances of humans with natural equivilents to
bioware organs occuring through natural mutations, even over time, are
about the same chances that any of the Dog Breeds from the Toy Group
would evolve naturally from wolves, over that same period of time.
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