LAST EDITED ON Jul-11-01 AT 02:38 PM (EDT)

>There's no mystical connection to your
>original body parts, and if you built an arm that was
>indistinguishable from the real thing to all external appearances and
>in the sensations and response it produced, and then put it in place
>of the original arm, you would not know that such a thing had been
>done.

Well, until you got it caught in a grain thresher or something and saw all the little sparkly bits. Then you'd have a psychotic episode. I wouldn't; I'd be too preoccupied wondering how the hell I got near enough to a grain thresher to get my bionic arm caught in it. But that's because, compared to you, my priorities are skewed. :)

--G.
["Aaaaah! Monster I am lest monster I become!!"]
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