From:	Alex van der Kleut sommers@*****.edu
Subject:	Cloning SOTA
Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:40:32 -0500

Spoiler alert for Streets of Blood and New Seattle:










At 01:30 AM 2/10/99 , Starrngr@***.com wrote:
>We all know that cloning is possible, and is infact commonplace in 206x. We
>also know that with simsense it is possible to experiance and record everthing
>a person sees hears and feels. Putting these two things together what is the
>general consensus on this list of the possiblity of these being used to
>provide certain people with a virtual immortality? IE being able to record a
>persons memeories and knowlege, and pump it into the brain of a clone, so that
>the clone wakes up knowing everything the person does?

Streets of Blood dealt with force growing a clone of a british aristocrat
and programming him with some of those persona fix BTL chips. Of course he
went insane and started killing all over the place... But it is possible to
build the body and get it ready for the procedure.

Now if you go look at New Seattle, there is a mention under the corp
section about one of the bio companies about brain mapping. IIRC it had
soemthing to do with using quantum drives to map the entore brain. The
implication is that if it could be copied up to a disk it could be copied
back down to a new body.

>And before you all jump on me saying even in 206x brain transplants arnt
>possible, I have two words for you: CYBER SKULL. Shure seems to me that the
>sort of work that needs to be done to give someone one of those, or a cyber
>torso, could be used to transplant a brain with no problem.

I have to say that it would be a gradual procedure, replacing each section
as they go around. Scooping out the entire brain still seems too
complicated. There's been a lot of work on repairing nerve connections, but
brain stem connections are still far away.

Alex
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