(urth) Birds, bees, mind-wipes

[David Stockhoff]

On 11/18/2011 12:37 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> *From:* James Wynn <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>
> > Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> >>Who was scanned to make Olivine, and how was the scan arranged? 
>> Chems talk
>> >>to Silk about reproduction once or twice, and nobody mentions this 
>> part.
>
> >That's a very good question. Equally puzzling is that chems can't 
> create replacement
> > parts but two of them can build a whole chem from scratch. I presume 
> a new chem's
> > personality is some kind of merging from its parents.
> It’s not so easy:
> [Marble] “We had begun a child, a daughter.” She sighed again. “It was 
> hard, dreadfully hard, to find parts, or even things we could make 
> them from. We never got far with her, and I don’t suppose she’ll ever 
> be born unless my husband takes a new wife, poor little thing.”
> It doesn’t say where the personality comes from. In principle one of 
> the needed parts could be a disk with somebody’s modified scan data, 
> but I don’t know of anything to support the idea.

This is one of those "use your imagination" moments. All they need is a 
port where they can each download a bootable copy and lo! the robot 
lovechild is made.