On Nov 10, 2004, at 7:22 PM, David Brin wrote:
--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote some cool kiln speculations.
Thanks.
I already did deal with religious conservative opposition to kilning and with sexual variations.
Yeah, I noticed that in KP; I think that's another difference in approach I might have taken. I mean the debate might have been so central to the story that the mystery aspect of it would have been incidental!
The alien idea though is one that I was intending to deal With. I mean, how could you tell?
It's a tack I wouldn't rule out myself. Aliens are fun and good ways to expose our own foibles through other mirrors. Besides, you use 'em a lot. ;)
Pregnancy. Interesting.
Julia's take on that was much more practical than mine; possibly because (knock wood) I've never been pregnant. I hadn't even considered the possibility of a ditto that was built to lactate. What would happen to the infant so nursed? Would he discover one day one of his mommyDits decomposing and be horrified, scarred for life?
Robert got more into it too with the cognitive dissonance question, which feels pretty intriguing as well. (I liked the ditto hacker ideas too, and the suggestion that composed personalities -- potted plants? -- are arguably inDitviduals.)
But what if clays actually can imprint with a dittoFetus? And even go into labor, possibly before their rigs? Or is it simply illegal for a pregnant woman to copy because of those concerns?
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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