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Old 03-13-2012, 04:02 AM   #13
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Default Re: Pro- and counter- Pan-Sapient Rights Memetic Campaigns

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Originally Posted by jeff_wilson View Post
One difference is that meat doesn't have convenient features to make and rescind arbitrarily broad or narrow scope mental changes, while synthetic minds presumably do. LAI-Bob comes with sliders and skins and mods and Undo/Redo functionality. When Meat-Bob needs to be adjusted after drawing breath, he gets a "Clockwork Orange" set piece.
Again, what about merely creating bioroids, parahumans, and perhaps creating and assembling totally new genotypes from scratch (though the latter is probably beyond THS right now) with built-in predisposition to certain types of behaviour. Like Slave Mentality, Selflessness or Sense of Duty?
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