From:	Sebastian Wiers m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject:	On Cybereyes
Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:06:51 -0700

> But not regrowing it. That's what has been done in this case. As for
what
> was missing was that "Grey Matter" could not be cloned in any direct
sense,
> thus no full "Clones" possibility. This article (which I can't find,
we've
> actually picked up most of the newspapers finally) could give the
potential
> of "brain cloning" to finally exist.

That I would be interested in reading about (shame you lost it). My
impresion is that brain tissue regrowth restored POTENTIAL function, but
still
required rehabilitation; learning and memeory that was lost had to be
re-gained. Of course, if dmaged pathways between processing centers were
restored, that could result in sudden return of abilties.
Still, a cloned brain would not (afiak) have the memories of the
original, because memroy is the result of nervous stimulation, and not
genetically encoded. <shrug> If thats wrong, I'd be very suprised, and
you are right, it could have a big impact on the game; you'd have
"Paranoia" style clones, not just (very advanced) medical repair and
augmentation.
The article may be dealing with breakthroughs in growth and development of
nueral tissue structures from cloned cells, which is indeed a technological
hurdle, but one that is well passed in Shadowrun (as evidenced by the
existance of Nuerological bioware). I pressume Shadowdocs could grow a
brain, but it would be like that of a baby, without even the rudumentary
abilty to control the body it was (presumably) grown in.

Mongoose


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