On Nov 27, 2004, at 5:38 PM, Maru wrote:
Warren, isn't restoring those lacking charactersitics the whole point of Uplift? After a good amount of progress on Uplifting the chimps, they would be near indistinguishable as far as that went.
That's an interesting way to see it, sure -- but initially one would see clear differences, I'd imagine.
Also, I don't know if I'd say that Uplift is the process of restoring so much as granting. And the definition of lack is pretty relative, IIRC; the Uplift sextet seemed to be partly about how patron species *messed up* their clients (at least from our point of view)...
But yeah, it's possible that after a few centuries of careful adjustment it would be pretty hard to tell us from chimps. (Interestingly I imagine the scale in reverse would be equally easy to achieve -- a few centuries of carelessness and we're basically back in the trees. ;)
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