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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
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> Since I believe that chem personalities are made from
mindwiped scans of <br>
> actual people</div>
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<div>Gerry Quinn wrote:<br>
Why do you believe that?</div>
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Because Marble's hands passively absorb Rose's personality.<br>
Because the Ayuntamiento's chems aborb their personalities to the
extent that they continue to live after the bios have died.<br>
Because although the method for constructing chems is not available
a method for connecting human minds to chems is apparently easily
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<div>There’s some evidence against it, I think.
Hammerstone’s disquisition on officers and men. </div>
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We'd have to review that those statements in context.<br>
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<div>And the soldiers don’t sleep as people do, </div>
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That's irrelevant. Sleep is a biological requirement. The Mainframe
gods don't sleep either AFAIK.<br>
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<div>and they don’t *remember* sleeping as people do, or
think it’s odd.</div>
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I would presume that the mindwipes and tweakings are far more
extensive chems than for humans. Chems are specifically programmed
for some useful activity. Marble is going to be fulfilled in
cleaning and service. At the same time, Hammerstone notes that chems
enjoy the smells of good food but can't eat it. Female chems wear
perfume. They practice their handwriting. What value would there be
in programming such character traits into a robot?<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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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.<br>
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