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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=crushtv@gmail.com
href="mailto:crushtv@gmail.com">James Wynn</A> </DIV>
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Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>>>Who was scanned to make Olivine, and how was the scan
arranged? Chems talk </DIV>
<DIV>>>to Silk about reproduction once or twice, and nobody mentions
this part.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>>That's a very good question. Equally puzzling is that chems can't
create replacement </DIV>
<DIV>> parts but two of them can build a whole chem from scratch. I presume a
new chem's</DIV>
<DIV>> personality is some kind of merging from its parents.</DIV>
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<DIV>It’s not so easy:</DIV>
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<DIV>[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.”</DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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