There was more than one reason I suggested putting a (living, higher mammal) human-mass animal through the CGM. If what comes out the far end still counts as an animal, and not a human child or catgirl in severe need of education, you've got an ideal subject for testing a modified CGM, or CBM, on.
Now, if you do get a potential human out, there are still possibilities (though, obviously, they'll go into a remedial program). If you deliberately inflict brain damage on the animal then put it through the machine you may get the equivalent of a brain-dead catgirl out. I don't recall any evidence that the CGM process repairs brain damage.
You'd need to run this whole idea past a thoroughly careful ethics panel, but, that might be a legitimate way of getting biomolding test subjects. Careful thought, not avoiding something just due to disgust over the 'yuck' factor.
One reason I'm mentioning this is that it is an example. There are likely all sort of processes that Fenspace scientists and Mads will think of, once they start to really to get their teeth into the problem. We're probably only scratching the surface.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Now, if you do get a potential human out, there are still possibilities (though, obviously, they'll go into a remedial program). If you deliberately inflict brain damage on the animal then put it through the machine you may get the equivalent of a brain-dead catgirl out. I don't recall any evidence that the CGM process repairs brain damage.
You'd need to run this whole idea past a thoroughly careful ethics panel, but, that might be a legitimate way of getting biomolding test subjects. Careful thought, not avoiding something just due to disgust over the 'yuck' factor.
One reason I'm mentioning this is that it is an example. There are likely all sort of processes that Fenspace scientists and Mads will think of, once they start to really to get their teeth into the problem. We're probably only scratching the surface.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind