02-02-2020, 04:33 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Amnesiac PCs in THS
Now I'm trying to nail down cannon about how bioroid brains work. The answer has to be "very differently than a normal human brain", because otherwise new bioroids would just be overgrown toddlers. But the exact nature of these coincidences isn't as clear.
I've been looking pretty hard for relevant canon in my THS books, but I might be missing something. Anyone know of anything else I should be paying attention to? |
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02-02-2020, 06:18 PM | #12 | |
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Re: Amnesiac PCs in THS
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I can remember suggesting to David during the orignal playtest that bioroids probably did something like combine an infant's speed of learning (or faster becaue the brain is even more blank) with the adult horsepower of a fully developed brain. Mostly though it's sine qua non of the concept. TS moved bioroids from being based on fast-growth cloning so much as to assembly-from-biogenesis as a way of boosting the believability but again it's mostly about wanting bioroids in the setting. It's s general principle that when the hardness of the science of any particular area gets wobbly it's because wiggle room was needed to make that aspect of the setting possible so as to achieve the original vison.
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02-02-2020, 09:29 PM | #13 | |||
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02-05-2020, 04:08 AM | #14 |
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Re: Amnesiac PCs in THS
Canonically, a very long way; look at that Deep beyond vignette again. The concept only makes any sort of sense if the maker can more or less pump memories and personality structures direct into the brain, and if you can do that, you can make one hell of a mess if you want to.
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02-05-2020, 10:13 PM | #15 | |
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I guess there are some limitations that wouldn't make sense even on more limited interpretations of bioroids. I suppose there's no rule against a bioroid that more or less has the memories of a normal human, if you raised it on slinkies of normal-human expereinces. But some details of the "Dark Places of the Earth" article in Pyramid #3/15 seem to require a lot more flexibility. In particular the description of the Proving Ground mentions that "Sometimes the researchers reprogram an entire community of bioroids to think they’re long-term residents" which seems to require that bioroids can have their memories wiped. And while it's true that humans can suffer amnesia, amnesia is usually not total and doesn't happen without the brain becoming impaired in other ways. Maybe you could remove a bioroid's memory centers and transplant a newly biofabricated one? But that's not what "reprogramming" implies, and I'm pretty sure you didn't mean that to be a possible backstory for Sally Xan. |
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