Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:32:42 -0700
From: Matthew Weber 
Subject: RE: (urth) "sibyl" as in "multiple personalities"

At 10:25 AM 9/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Mantis ponders:
>So is there a level of prosthetic inclusion where the items are purely
>prosthetic (human level), and then a level beyond that where the
>prosthetics begin to influence the individual (cyborg), up to a level where
>the prosthetics either take over the individual or cause it to disintegrate
>under the babble (robot)?
>
>Crush responds:
>Well consider that Silk ponders whether there is anything left of the real
>"Rose" amid all her prosthetics.
>As one might expect, I wonder if the process goes the other way. Can chems
>take on bio prosthetics and is there a point where the prosthetics supercede
>the prevenient.

Wouldn't Jonas be a case of exactly that?



Matthew Weber
Curatorial Assistant
Music Library
University of California, Berkeley

How long halt ye between two opinions?
         The Holy Bible (The Old Testament):  _The First Book of the 
Kings_, chapter 18, verse 21


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