| From: | R Andrew Hayden <rahayden@*****.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: innovative topic (Was: Replicants) |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Feb 93 04:56:42 CET |
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> Sorry chummer, DNA doesn't work that way (I'm an undergrad geneticist)
Good, I'm glad to hear that. I dodn't know if we had anyone with genetics
background on here. My last dealing with genetics was back in 10th grade
biology, and that was during Reagan's 1st administration, and like him, I
don't remember much.
> However, the alternate possibility wouldn't involve genetic
> engineering, and would instead involve actual protein synthesis... However, I
> sincerely doubt that SR tech is up to this... What it would involve would be
> figuring out the brain's storage system, (which involves basically encoding
> everything you learn into protein in an as yet undetermined method) and
writing
> stuff out in the brain's "Operating System" and then storing it in the
clone's
> brain cells...
Well, SR has to have a fairly good grasp of how to use the brain. Just
the integrating of cyberware with the brain shows that. But you are
right, SR Tech doesn't seem to be up to the level of programming thoughts.
> VERY true... not all that different from what we do today with Human
> Growth Hormone injections... However, I'd set an upper limit of around 8 for
> all attributes on these guys... Then again, trolls can have tens and 11s...
> maybe that's more appropriate... regardless, the people with these sorta mods
> aren't gonna look normal, by any stretch of the imagination--enlarged Brain
> cases, bone deposits in the skin, outrageously tall statures--get the picture?
> There's a trade off for everything...
I would say that you couldn't have a replicants ability exceed a
non-replicant max ability by more that two or three. All of these
increases are directly the result of bioware. The only difference between
a Replicant with an intelligence of 8 and a really smart human with a
Cerebral Booster is the fact that the replicant was "born" with the
cerebral booster built in, while the human had it installed later. Smae
goes for any other bioware. A Replicant can have it from the git-go.
> Here, I'd still maintain that SR tech simply wouldn't allow you to
> program these emotions... While I posted earlier about a memory swapper... the
> only thing I can think of analogous to do that would involve a StarTrek
> transporter... (which poses another philosophical question in a similar
> vein--If a transporter can make one of you by recording the data pattern, why
> can't it replicate you also? And if it can, which one is the real one?!?!)
The ethics of cloning can cause almost as much of a headache as a temporal
paradox. As far as we have seen in SR, there is no way to record
memories, and no way to write them back. Now, in theory I suppose you
could write a skillchip called Emotion-# that simulates an emotional
respone depending on the situation, but the replicant I would think really
couldn't FEEL emotions, which in the Blade Runner movie was the reason for
their eventually going insane and the creation of termination dates.
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