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RE: Dad In the Machine (short story)

in #fiction7 years ago

Way deeper than we thought, actually. Did in fact pick up on the sister being more interested in the floorboards than the tech, also picked up on techie vs artist, but didn't really diagram it in the mind like an English professor might. And also fully thought about the main conflict, which again reminded us of some of the conflicts in the show Black Mirror. Black Mirror is all about the dark side of current or future technology, your story is actually better bc it touches on both light and dark, and finished light. Happy ending actually, which we like.

If Artistotle (did he even have kids? thought he was gay and his beloved "children" were his students? but we always confuse him with Socrates anyway) cannot be reproduced as a blank slate clone, then genetics would be similar to blockchain. But lot of nuances here. For one thing, "nurture" DEFINITELY matters, and think there's a large amount of proof to that at this point. In-vitro babies can even "learn" to eat (or like) certain things from what the mother was eating while she was in the womb-- so the gene-code of the baby can be changed in the womb, but more importantly the mother's genes change during her life, such that subsequent babies actually get her progressive genes. So the gene code can change over time, but blockchain is locked forever in the past, only the present (transactions) can change the block as it's being hashed out.

If James Clerk Maxwell weren't living in isolation without siblings on 1500 acres of his father's estate, would he have been so curious about how everything works? What if his equations had already been invented before he was a teenager, then what would his genes have accomplished.
If Jack White hadn't grown up poor and had more toys than that guitar he got while impressionable, what happens to him? All unanswered questions.

but yeah, your writing of a woman is above our head, just like a real woman. so you must know SOMETHING!