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Comment author: Document 07 November 2010 07:26:30PM 0 points [-]

OT: I'm also curious what happens when you mix multiple people's blood. Or if you developed the technology to transplant brains between bodies - does the prediction follow the body or the brain? What if you could clone a brainless body and test its blood before and after installing a brain? More generally, by what method does the machine decide who a particular blood sample "belongs" to a particular person, and what are the edge cases and ambiguities of that method?

Comment author: Document 28 May 2011 04:25:23AM 0 points [-]

The editors are currently accepting submissions for Volume 2 (deadline July 15), making me wish I had a story to submit exploring some of those questions.