Actually the way I think of it technology has nothing to do with it. Anthros
are merely animals that have evolved to were they stand on two feet and have
human intelligence. And as I believe with that evolution that anthros are no
longer driven by their hormones. But like humans hormones can affect them in
some way. Also the inbreeding restriction would fade away since the anthros are
becoming more and more alike as evolution goes on.
-Claw MacKain, lone half-god lion bounty hunter =^_^=
In a message dated 4/25/04 2:43:01 AM Central Daylight Time,
kitfox_at_firstlight.net writes:
<< Actually, both Cedric and Jim severely overcomplicated this.
There is actually only ONE continuing entity, that being the adult
male. Setting aside the factor that with current technology, females who
become male cannot sire children (After all, there is time travel, so a
Femme to Melle Change could possibly sire offspring in that concept), this
is actually a moderately simple set of loops.
And no, there would not be "inbreeding" issues with iterations, because
there is really only one entity, technically. The inbreeding would be
essentially actually "cloning" issues. Do this the simple way... Trace
the lifetime of the individual, and ignore a lot of the confusion, then be
aware of the fact that there are not "multiple instances" or multiple times
that this happens.
Baby girl is born. Grows up female. Is impregnated with her own genetic
makeup, but a male version thereof. (Be aware, we don't have to trace the
daughter as a "new" entity, it is simply a single thread looping to take
multiple routes at the same time. The girl that is born 9 months later is
the BEGINNING of this thread.) Gets sex change, and goes back to impregnate
him/her self. Again, no need to worry about the female version, because
that's "behind" us on this thread. After placing the baby in the past, male
version goes on with own life and no family.
The paradox factor could come in theory from the issue that this is a
closed-start loop. there is no beginning coming in on the time line, the
actual start is from a jump back, and the middle of an existing thread.
However, if you then consider it at a lower level (Raw material the body is
made from), the base raw material for the entity exits on its own thread up
until the conception point, and then becomes the raw material for the
entity's thread.
I hate ASCII art... BUT...
/--->-->--\
P v--<--<--\ \
A -->--->---2-\ R \ \
S / X \ \
T /--<----<----1/ \-->--3-\ \--->--->--> Future
R is the raw material... I didn't draw its timeline in from the past. X is
the crossing where the raw material began to become processed into a human.
Then down left to 1, a baby girl. The loop back by the MALE to collect her
is completely unimportant, it's just a method of getting her back into the
past. She grows up, and at position 2, she is impregnated by her future
male self, thus spawning herself off at the X. At 3, she becomes male, and
loops back to impregnate herself (And later to move her baby self to the
past, but again, unimportant in the materials thread). Then the male can go
anywhere and continue its life, but it's the only "one" of the "three" that
does.
Such a loop has no actual sentient start in the time thread, so that is
where the possible paradox comes in. However, since the materials and
energy thread is consistent from the past to the future, it really doesn't
create a paradox... But -ONLY- if free will does not exist, and the future
is solidly written. That in itself is a disturbing concep >>
Received on Sun Apr 25 2004 - 17:52:02 CDT