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In duplicate-cloning, the idea is that the duplicate's brain is a cell-perfect copy of the original and that's how you can get the same memories in a different head. Whereas Yogzarthu brains change shape depending on the head they're in, if they're even in the head. The question of 'where does identity reside?' comes up every so often in this series and the answer changes every time.
Start from the beginning of this arc.
Start from the beginning.
In duplicate-cloning, the idea is that the duplicate's brain is a cell-perfect copy of the original and that's how you can get the same memories in a different head. Whereas Yogzarthu brains change shape depending on the head they're in, if they're even in the head. The question of 'where does identity reside?' comes up every so often in this series and the answer changes every time.
Start from the beginning of this arc.
Start from the beginning.
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Now here is an interesting idea that you've done there!
I've been looking up various interesting stuff on the nets now and then for my neurology and neurosurgery exams. Long story short. If personality is in the brain, and you GROW a perfect clone of someone, then that would be an entirely different person, because the brain constantly "changes" due to all the new "links" constantly being made in lieu of all that happens around the said person. Every second new information bombards the brain and it adjusts to it.
Well, since we don't really know that much about brains, there is still another thing. Memories, personalities, basic autonomous functions, everything is action potential, an electric impulse that travels up or down the synapses back and forth to the brain or a single cell in your left toe. The way you describe the Yogzarthu makes me think that, in essence, they are not really an organic life form so much as an energy life form of sorts. It sounds really far-fetched but nowadays scientists believe that non-organic life, including energy life forms is quite possible, even within our very own galaxy.
I'd imagine that the Yogzarthu initially started out as pure energy life forms that somewhere down the murky annals of their natural history found themselves adorning a fleshy shell, not unlike hermit crabs. Or maybe they were organic life forms with a far more powerful set of action potential voltages in hand, then say any other life form in the area. They do seem the truly overpowered types and I don't mean that in the standard way but as in everything they do requires ridiculous amounts of energy to accomplish. And energy is interchangeable with information, not just with mass.
The way you've gone through this whole ordeal, every cell having an effect on the way you think... On one side, we'd have a very complex and overly-unnecessary energy-wise nervous network that would allow for the amount of change that is going on. Even with the stated above overpowered-ness that the Yogzarthu posess, they'd require a far more taxing brain that they'd be able to feed in the long run. An over-specialized "Jack of all trades" if you catch my drift.
On the other hand, evolution likes it simple and as cost-free as possible. As such, I imagine each cell in a Yogzarthu's body to be, well, not exactly a stem cell, but a cell that is capable to handle a certain type of change and then proliferate. For example, in our very own skins there is a low number of very important large cells known as Langerhans (sp?) cells which at first eat up antigens whenever there is an infection. Once they eat the antigens they literally present them on receptors on the surface and then keratinocytes (which are literally 90% of our epidermis) secrete Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Interleukins 1 which both make the Langerhans cell more active AND force it to migrate to the nearest Lymph node where it gives the anigens on its surface to a nearby "naive" or pure T-lymphocytes. Now this is the important part. The T-lymphocyte takes the antigen and it LEARNS it! then it turns into a MEMORY T-cell and it goes to the epidermis where it proliferates.
Yogzarthu eat a certain type of flesh and they imprint on the DNA, right? I think that was what the Yogzarthu do. Also I read that for a Yogzarthu, there isn't much difference between "A rat and a sardine". On a cellular level, there really isnt that much of a difference, they still use the same type of materials, the same type of molecules and, most importantly, THE SAME TYPE OF SYNAPSES AND CONNECTIONS between their cells.
Anyways, I hope this made as much sense as it did to me, a Medical Student, almost a doctor. No wonder Yogzarthu are always hungry, what with the glorious amounts of precious energy the exert at any given moment just making sure their BODY work and for that matter they must be the Kings of ADD with the even greater glorious amounts of internal multitasking.
To make a really long story short, however, here is this: Gilou asked "WHy don't the Yogzarthu change personalities each time they shift, then?"(I like how this quote fits so perfectly with my essay on your awesome Yogzarthu
)
Well, to answer that question, I simply need to repeat that Energy IS Information and that your DNA, while very good at storing CERTAIN information, isn't the deciding factor. Rather, the action potentials that run through one's brain in the gazillions is what does that. And action potential is Energy. By that fact, and by applying the theories and arguments of the infamous Bohr-Einstein debates about quantum mechanics, then you can basically Clone any one person's personality AND memories by simply copying that Energy Database contantly running through every single one of their cells at any given time.
I hope this has been as entertaining for you as it has been for me I am going back to my lurking for an indefinite period of time
I've been looking up various interesting stuff on the nets now and then for my neurology and neurosurgery exams. Long story short. If personality is in the brain, and you GROW a perfect clone of someone, then that would be an entirely different person, because the brain constantly "changes" due to all the new "links" constantly being made in lieu of all that happens around the said person. Every second new information bombards the brain and it adjusts to it.
Well, since we don't really know that much about brains, there is still another thing. Memories, personalities, basic autonomous functions, everything is action potential, an electric impulse that travels up or down the synapses back and forth to the brain or a single cell in your left toe. The way you describe the Yogzarthu makes me think that, in essence, they are not really an organic life form so much as an energy life form of sorts. It sounds really far-fetched but nowadays scientists believe that non-organic life, including energy life forms is quite possible, even within our very own galaxy.
I'd imagine that the Yogzarthu initially started out as pure energy life forms that somewhere down the murky annals of their natural history found themselves adorning a fleshy shell, not unlike hermit crabs. Or maybe they were organic life forms with a far more powerful set of action potential voltages in hand, then say any other life form in the area. They do seem the truly overpowered types and I don't mean that in the standard way but as in everything they do requires ridiculous amounts of energy to accomplish. And energy is interchangeable with information, not just with mass.
The way you've gone through this whole ordeal, every cell having an effect on the way you think... On one side, we'd have a very complex and overly-unnecessary energy-wise nervous network that would allow for the amount of change that is going on. Even with the stated above overpowered-ness that the Yogzarthu posess, they'd require a far more taxing brain that they'd be able to feed in the long run. An over-specialized "Jack of all trades" if you catch my drift.
On the other hand, evolution likes it simple and as cost-free as possible. As such, I imagine each cell in a Yogzarthu's body to be, well, not exactly a stem cell, but a cell that is capable to handle a certain type of change and then proliferate. For example, in our very own skins there is a low number of very important large cells known as Langerhans (sp?) cells which at first eat up antigens whenever there is an infection. Once they eat the antigens they literally present them on receptors on the surface and then keratinocytes (which are literally 90% of our epidermis) secrete Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha and Interleukins 1 which both make the Langerhans cell more active AND force it to migrate to the nearest Lymph node where it gives the anigens on its surface to a nearby "naive" or pure T-lymphocytes. Now this is the important part. The T-lymphocyte takes the antigen and it LEARNS it! then it turns into a MEMORY T-cell and it goes to the epidermis where it proliferates.
Yogzarthu eat a certain type of flesh and they imprint on the DNA, right? I think that was what the Yogzarthu do. Also I read that for a Yogzarthu, there isn't much difference between "A rat and a sardine". On a cellular level, there really isnt that much of a difference, they still use the same type of materials, the same type of molecules and, most importantly, THE SAME TYPE OF SYNAPSES AND CONNECTIONS between their cells.
Anyways, I hope this made as much sense as it did to me, a Medical Student, almost a doctor. No wonder Yogzarthu are always hungry, what with the glorious amounts of precious energy the exert at any given moment just making sure their BODY work and for that matter they must be the Kings of ADD with the even greater glorious amounts of internal multitasking.
To make a really long story short, however, here is this: Gilou asked "WHy don't the Yogzarthu change personalities each time they shift, then?"(I like how this quote fits so perfectly with my essay on your awesome Yogzarthu
) Well, to answer that question, I simply need to repeat that Energy IS Information and that your DNA, while very good at storing CERTAIN information, isn't the deciding factor. Rather, the action potentials that run through one's brain in the gazillions is what does that. And action potential is Energy. By that fact, and by applying the theories and arguments of the infamous Bohr-Einstein debates about quantum mechanics, then you can basically Clone any one person's personality AND memories by simply copying that Energy Database contantly running through every single one of their cells at any given time.
I hope this has been as entertaining for you as it has been for me
I am going back to my lurking for an indefinite period of time