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From: Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Fully Active Aura Cloning
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:18:54 -0400
At 10:10 PM 5/20/98 EDT, you wrote:

>> Anyway, how can you clone a soul? Even using your procedure, I don't see
>> how it could happen. I'd argue that nothing would happen. But it is
>> possible (though perhaps not probable) that the soul could be forced to
>> split, half of the soul staying in the original body and half going to
>> inhabit the clone body. Or the stresses of being split or trying to
>> inhabit two bodies overstresses the soul and it is destroyed, killing at
>> least the "parent" if not also the clone.
>>
>Okay, I'm just leaping in on this one point. Remember Aztlan??? There is an
>old parable about "Smoking Mirrors" and their entire religious discourse.

Vaguely. I tend to remember things in a holistic fashion though, not
individual details.


>There is also a thought about
>"attracting alternate beings", as in, "X" being is the original
from -this-
>dimension, while "Y" being is from -that- dimension. They are each other's
>"Mirror Selves" as it were.

Curious. Interesting possibilities for a plot point, if you want to throw
a spanner in the works.

Sorry, make that wrench and not spanner. I've just started re-reading the
six books of the Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy, and "spanner" gets used about
a once per page on the first 20-30 pages...

Erik J.

Arch-Enemy of Marvin, the Paranoid Android! (he just hates it when I'm
nice to him!)

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