Re: Medtch 2180

Los said--
>body, and assuming a simple technical work-around, device or whatever
. Even if
>you could grow a body in a few days and you could just remove the
guy's
>memory/mind imprints and throw it in a new body what about his
"spirit?"

(snip)

>BTW I'm no brain researcher but we have attended some very detailed
workshops
>on heart/mind synching, stress control and other issues along these
lines.
>(some of which has gone into the development of heart sensors which
help you
>detect people with a device forma a distance or behind a wall ala
Rainbow
>Six.") Summing up in very unscientific terms: The way you learn and
the way you
>build memory is facilitated by the fact that neuron synapses in
various parts
>of your brain through firing the same way over and over actually
build
>increased connections to each other, thicken and undergo some actual
physical
>transformation. So a cloned brain, while potentially of the same
capacity as
>the one in my head would not have the same neuron "pathways/
interfaces"
>established the same as the one I've been using for almost 40 years.
So even if
>you could imprint the exact memories on you new brain, your brain
would not be
>physically capable of processing them or working with them in the
same was as
>the old one.

The literature in the motivational field agrees that it takes at least
3 weeks to change a habit, simply because that's how long it takes for
the chemical pathways to break down.  Repeated stimuli make a
bigger/stronger path.  Dr. Shad Helmstetter has written several books
on this.

I have serious doubts that we will _ever_ be able to map human
memories.

>> > 3) If a weapon wounds you badly, stabilization will probably be
so good
>> > that you can get to a med facility. If so, you're probably
gauranteed a
>> > near full recovery.
>
>By the way if this technology advances to a point where all of Tom's
>suppositions are fact, then it's pretty obvious that weapons would
have to
>advance ahead of this technology to ensure the complete obliteration
of
>anything you hit since a "kill" as we know it not would not really be
a kill in
>the future. I would submit that personal weapons would inevitably
have to
>advance to the point that if you hit something, then it simply would
not exist
>any further since any weapon that didn't do that would not be
accomplishing
>anything to further its cause in the long run.

I disagree here.  You are taking someone out of action.  Even if he
puts on a close and comes back the next day--which I seriously
doubt--the enemy is having to pay for the clones, the technicians,
memory mapping, and storage space for all these.  And imagine what it
would do to morale if you successfully raid the clone bank.