Discussion on the Catboy Machine and Biomolding

[Ace Dreamer]

Besides, the CGM copies tend to focus on the end result, not the specifics of consoles.

Could you please explain that a bit more?

Okay this is early Fenspace. Few folks grok enough of what the wave does to have strongly reproducable results.
Effectively, the boskones are working harder to make the "tube" and run the program that makes a catgirl than to make all of the consoles that run the program identical.
At least one CGM console captured by GJ was the printed circuit boards from a hundred pocket calculators wired to a Mundane Soviet-era portable B&W TV and a Chinese manual typewriter. Another was a Commodore 64 and a clearance rack CRT monitor. Etc etc.

Thanks for posting this, I think it throws useful light on the CGM.  So, it is the process that the handwavium is interested in, arguably taking someone who is dying and giving them a new life as a catgirl.  The actual hardware used to carry out the process isn't irrelevant, but is a secondary thing.
META: I'm talking here from the perspective that the CGM has the original JFM 'chop and slice' capability, and it uses this on the subject, then makes a catgirl version of 'Julian Friez' out of the 'raw materials', but with the mind of the subject, rather than Julian Friez.  Of course, I may have a fundamental misunderstanding of what is going on. [grin]
Just to upset people more, this means, assuming I'm correct, that the CGM is a 'resurrection machine'! [grin]
META META: I apologise to anyone who's allergic to 'spoilers'.  That is, of course, if I've actually provided any! [grin]
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