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Date Posted: 23:32:55 08/20/02 Tue
Author: A.P.
Subject: Comprehensive Chip Explanation!!
In reply to: UHC 's message, "Super Technology of Buffy" on 16:59:27 08/20/02 Tue

Maybe it merely prevents Spike from doing something he KNOWS is wrong. With Tara, since he was unsure if she was human, it fired anyway (precautionary). Feeding with Dru, I don't recall, but was the person dead?

The molecular whatever of Buffy, I think, was nothing. Spike really did believe something was wrong with Buffy when she came back.. his personal beliefs about magic would have him thinking she is not 'natural.' Hence, he can beat the snot out of Buffy without the chip firing; if it is in his brain, it makes sense to be triggered based on a perception. In fact, since we can stimulate certain parts of the brain and get a biological response, this seems not only plausible but theoretically POSSIBLE -- catch being, it'd have to be in live brain tissue. Put a chip in, measure activity in one of the brain's areas, analyze it, etc: you would look for a pattern that, perhaps, is something meaning I AM ABOUT TO DO VIOLENT PHYSICAL HARM THAT I KNOW IS WRONG. There should be chemical changes, etc.

Being a vamp, however, throws a monkey wrench into all that -- we don't know their brainiology. :) The theory goes "the demon gets your body but it doesn't get your soul" and the demon is tainted by the person, meaning a lot of the residual brain structure is intact, infecting the demon. So -- if a vamp is a demon in a human's body that explains two more things: one, why they have to be careful in the brain. Perhaps the demon controls the motor functions via the brain and nervous system, which are "dead" but still electrical conduits and thus how they channel the energy. This is a Ghost in the Machine but unless you took college Philosophy, you can ignore that one flaw in the theory :) The other thing is how Little Spikey gets up to do 'battle' -- same deal -- the demon controls the body.

And there you have it !! :)

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[> [> A.P. - sorry, didn't see your response, before I posted mine...we are thinking on the same lines. -- Lijdrec....;-.), 23:57:05 08/20/02 Tue [1]


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[> [> It's all clearer to me now!! -- Phae, 10:48:16 08/21/02 Wed [1]


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