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Subject: I just realized something about the Story...
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In First Strike, Cortana openly proclaimes her worries about using a copy of herself, much less a copy of a copy. Now, erlier in the book it says that Cortana was created using flash cloned copies of Dr. Halseys brain. Now, way back in The Fall of Reach, it says that humanity had never succesfully cloned a human, and that they always ended up with neurological disorders. If you thing about it, Cortana is, in fact, a copy of a copy, which could lead to all kinds of unforseen trouble in the next few books. Just thought I'd put this thought forward for anyone who wants to read it.

Be it known, I'm probobally going on another three month long sabbatical from Bungie, so assume I'm not coming back.

  • 05.28.2006 11:51 PM PDT
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Cloning humans is an issue but cloning brains is not. Super A.I.'s like cortana need a human brain, sorta like a hard drive. The only way to get brains for them is from cadavers, or clones. A brain has to be yanked from a cadaver pretty quick so as not to spoil, so it's a lot safer to clone a brain.

  • 05.29.2006 12:37 AM PDT
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yaeh, she's also machine, not human, they said that they never cloned a "human". and when she duplicates herself, it's not exactly cloning, it's copying, and she only didn't want to because it's hard to do multi-tasking on that scale...

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  • 05.29.2006 2:14 AM PDT
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they "flash cloned" tiny bit ofbrain and created her with it now she don't need that brain anymore

  • 05.29.2006 2:17 AM PDT
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i dont think that cortana will have problems as they didnt write anything about previous AIs havin problems right, and anyway she will die in 7 years or smth like dat so mayb its the end of her life and shes abit senile..

  • 05.29.2006 3:44 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

They flash cloned 10 of Dr Hallseys (I cant be bothered to spell) brain (or use correct grammar :P) and only one was usable. This would be a problem if they wanted an exact copy of Dr Hallsey, but as Cortana is her own 'person' it should not present a problem.
When Cortana uses the Copy program she can sort out the little bits of corrupt data, as she did when she made a copy of herself for the Chief. The problem THAT copy had was creating too many copies, which in turn reated copies, which in turn etc... there was not enough time to sort out the corruption in the copies, and too many to do it for.

  • 05.29.2006 4:51 AM PDT