This post gets a little ramble-y. Sorry about that. :)
Is reproduction covered anywhere in the core book? I haven't read the whole thing yet, but (rather major) topic just now occurred to me and I did a search for "reproduction" in the pdf and only found 2 instances of it, neither of which really covers the topic as a whole. Am I searching for the wrong phrase, or was this somehow overlooked?
It just seems to me, that with the ability to modify one's body and even switch into entirely new bodies and change one's physical sex, not to mention the separation between "ego" and "morph" that the creation of new life is a topic worth exploring.
This occurred to me when I read a response to a question I posted asking about dolphins. Someone said that uplifted dolphins would make the best fighter pilots since they have millions of years of evolution dealing with 3d spatial relations and maneuvering.
That sort of skill, however, would be attached to ones ego, even though it originated with evolution and instinct and biological DNA, right? So what does it mean when some ego traits and "learned" skills that originally had some basis in one's original body can be taken along into a new body? What happens when a neo-cetacean resleeves into a humanoid biomorph and mates with another person (of whatever origin) in a human-shaped biomorph? Although the ego is one's self, it is also "just" data that can be stored in a computer, so is the only relevant factor when it comes to reproduction the DNA and biology of the morphs in question? Or is all reproduction currently just done "in tubes" so to speak anyway? There are a lot of questions here that seem vitally important, if not to a character's day-to-day life, than to the background and understanding of post-Fall society and how it differs from our real world.
Is any of this addressed in the book, and if so where?
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Transhumanity and reproduction
Mon, 2010-02-08 10:52
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Transhumanity and reproduction
Mon, 2010-02-08 19:45
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Re: Transhumanity and reproduction
Here you have a topic in which this was discussed: http://www.eclipsephase.com/morphs-and-having-children
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Tue, 2010-02-09 17:40
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Re: Transhumanity and reproduction
Thanks! A lot of interesting ideas in that thread. I kind of hope this subject is addressed at some point in an official book, though. It seems like it's too important an aspect of society not to be.
Wed, 2010-03-24 22:55
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Re: Transhumanity and reproduction
Not to mention a sophont up-lift and transhuman deciding to have offspring. I just imagine the family gatherings for a slightly modified human and a dolphin pod
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Wed, 2010-03-24 23:55
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Re: Transhumanity and reproduction
I'd imagine that most transhuman genetics would be vastly different enough between morph types that mating two different clades may be equivalent to trying to have kids with your dog. Biology simply won't allow it (or perhaps some programmed limitation designed by the hypercorps won't allow it).
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Thu, 2010-03-25 00:35
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Re: Transhumanity and reproduction
might end up being with spinning off the instinctual programming from both parents into the 'kid' and who sez the hypercorps have the only access to bleeding edge genetech
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A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Now We Are Alone"
Thu, 2010-03-25 01:17
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Re: Transhumanity and reproduction
It's not a question of whether the 'corps have the only access, but a question of whether these clades are even genetically compatible. There is a very good chance that one clade compared to another could result in dramatically different genetics, the potential for dramatically different number of chromosomes, and more differences. If a Remade as 30 chromosomal pairs, then how the hell could it breed with a flat or splicer?
To that end, most biomorphs are provided by hypercorps. There is a very real possibility that they may build in safeguards to prevent inter-clade breeding, which would force consumers to purchase two biomorphs to get what they want done.
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Thu, 2010-03-25 01:23
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Re: Transhumanity and reproduction
Hmm....point taken
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A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions--if only we lived in one.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"Now We Are Alone"