Ace Dreamer Wrote:Sounds something like induced Multiple Personality Disorder (whatever it is fashionable to call it at the moment), or some other major fragmentation of the personality. Fiction has some remarkably precise devices which mess with people's memories, but I'm not sure how much you could get handwavium to cooperate in this sort of thing.I think they developed it from some "quick-learning" device some other Fen invented.
Fenspace is not limited to building stuff from Scifi... (and it cannot build all stuff described in Scifi)
Quote:I suppose you could claim that hard-tech is used to do the damage, and handwavium is working as hard as it can to minimise the bad effects. One possibility is that the memories are all still there, they just can't be accessed, due to damage to either the retrieval system, or the indexing/associative system that lets people get at their memories. Changing someone's sense of personal identity by changing their body to a catgirl would be quite traumatic, and it is possible Boskone had a way of directing the effects of that trauma. Maybe something like high tech conditioning?If my (as a writer) knowledge is right, the memories are not there anymore.
CI will have proven this in 2016 during their research.