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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=natasha@natasha.cc
href="mailto:natasha@natasha.cc">Natasha Vita-More</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">>>At 03:05 PM 2/15/04 -0800, Olga
wrote:<BR>>>"Society may not be quite ready for the day when a dead
person's face is<BR>recycled for the living - but that day is
coming...<BR><BR>>>... Faces are the most visible portion of human
identities. They're how we<BR>think of ourselves, how others recognize us. The
possibility of altering<BR>that identity so radically - a science-fiction plot
device made real - could<BR>make people recoil, perhaps eroding support for
the operation.":</DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial
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size=2></FONT><BR>>I was not able to read the article, but engineering
faces is fascinating. We will have to rethink and relearn how we "read"
people's faces. It is fairly easy to recognize a face that has had
reconstruction or does have removable parts. We would need the
capability detect the seamless replaced faces, and another capability to go
into the brain and see the lines of experience within the brain that had once
been worn on the bio face.</DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Presently, recycling (dead people's) faces
would be a stop-gap measure. Better scientific solutions will
undoubtedly come along. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What's interesting to me about this is
that it's one more medical/engineering innovation that will exemply
to the general public the practicality of science and
technology over trying to bribe their deity-of-choice.
Also, it may inspire another facet in the debate about who
we are vs. how we look (or whom we look like?).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Olga</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>baby step for the general public to grapple with
the questions of who we are and what we are and
how to keep ourselves as intact as possible in a practical
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