The Duncans

[RedHeadKevin]

A simple question: Were the Duncan Idahos, after Hayt, gholas of the original Duncan, or of Hayt? I can find a lot of evidence to support either.

I personally say they were gholas made from Hayt's cells:
-There's a scene where a Duncan remembers the Twins as babies (The original Duncan was dead long before that)
- a Duncan refers to Paul as "Muad'Dib." (The original Duncan died before Paul took that name)
- a Duncan says he can resist The Voice, because Muad'Dib told him how (The name thing. Also, Duncan learned to resist The Voice from his <15 year old student?)
-There are others, but that's all I can think of right now.

[Freakzilla]

Ahem....



Hayt was a ghola.

A reanimated cadaver.

All after were technically CLONES (Grown from cells of the original)

[RedHeadKevin]

True, but they were all Gholas. SO I'm counting Hayt as the same kind of gholas as the rest of the Duncans, grown from the cells of the original Duncan Idaho, rather than just a re-animated FrankenDuncan.

[Freakzilla]

True, but they were all Gholas. SO I'm counting Hayt as the same kind of gholas as the rest of the Duncans, grown from the cells of the original Duncan Idaho, rather than just a re-animated FrankenDuncan.

No, only Hayt was a ghola, requiring many months in an axlotl tank to repair the greivous head wound suffered by the Sardaukar sword.

However... (this is probably something McJacket doesn't understand)... Leto II's CLONES were grown from original DI cells.

Where the line is between GHOLA and CLONE is between YOU and FH.

Let's move on...

In HoD and CH:D, the "gholas" were a cell combination of all Duncan cell samples that were available.

[Freakzilla]

Hayt was killed in (trivia question) by Stilgar. Fremen don't give cadavers to Bene Tleilaxu.

[Slugger]

Where the line is between GHOLA and CLONE is between YOU and FH.

After CoD, it was my interpretation that a ghola was a clone who had recovered the memories of its former self.

[Freakzilla]

Where the line is between GHOLA and CLONE is between YOU and FH.

After CoD, it was my interpretation that a ghola was a clone who had recovered the memories of its former self.

I will let Tamalane explain it for you...

Tamalane frowned. She had disagreed from the first with calling this child a
ghola. Gholas were grown from cells of a cadaver. This was a clone, just as
Scytale was a clone.
~CH:D

[lotek]

Hayt was killed in (trivia question) by Stilgar. Fremen don't give cadavers to Bene Tleilaxu.

in sietch tabr?
to force him into hiding Ghanima from Alia this I'm sure after killing Buer Agraves, Alia's/the baron's lover and insulting Stil with the famous Fremen insults

[Apjak]

They were all Gholas, grown from cadaver cells of at least one Duncan Idaho that had lived. I like to think that the specialty of the post-Scattering Duncan Ghola is that he was grown with cells of all the Duncan Idahoes that the BT had put out throughout history.

[Slugger]

Where the line is between GHOLA and CLONE is between YOU and FH.

After CoD, it was my interpretation that a ghola was a clone who had recovered the memories of its former self.

I will let Tamalane explain it for you...

Tamalane frowned. She had disagreed from the first with calling this child a
ghola. Gholas were grown from cells of a cadaver. This was a clone, just as
Scytale was a clone.
~CH:D

So, in theory, you could take samples of a person's cells and clone him. Then, when he dies, re-animate the original, thus making him a ghola. You could reawaken all the copies memories, so you could have several different instances of the same person running around?

[lotek]

a ghola by definition is created from cells sampled on a dead body, while a clone is a copy of a living person.
The question being is it possible to awaken genetic memory from a clone?

I think not because FH would have not called them by different names, that's how language works, different names different things(especially with FH's attention to detail and quality)
Then is there a link between the death of the person and the transmission of the genetic memory?

As for the other question is it possible to awaken several instances of the same ghola?
I'd say yes but I think that FH never made it happen, unless I'm severely mistaken only thehacks did it with Scytale trying to awaken his own clone in SoD, and other instances of Pauls too(hey if it's possible in the nudune it probably means it's BS no?)

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Differences between gholas and clones

Though a ghola would at first seem synonymous with a clone, there were some key differences:

* To be considered a true ghola, the being must have been created after the original human had died, whereas a clone can be created while the original human was still alive.
* Gholas possessed most (if not all) of the memories of the source human, thanks to a combination of conditioning and a variant on genetic memory.
* Gholas originally possessed artificial 'metallic' eyes, due to an initial problem with the method of ghola production. This was later resolved, resulting in them possessing natural eyes.

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[Freakzilla]

Reverend Mothers don't have death memories and they have OM.

[Slugger]

The question being is it possible to awaken genetic memory from a clone?

Teg recovered his memories in CH:D. His samples were collected by Odrade on-board the no-ship, while he was alive, so technically he'd be a clone. He wouldn't have any memories of his death.

[Freakzilla]

One argument is (we've had this discussion before) that BT technology could have improved over the series.

Original, as in Hayt's case, they had to bring the corpse back to life and repair it's wounds.

Eventually they got to where they could regrow a clone from a cell sample.

[lotek]

Reverend Mothers don't have death memories and they have OM.

but they can Share while gholas don't to my knowledge
Do you think the genetic memory of gholas and OM are the same?

Ok the Spice Agony of RM and the shock trigger of gholas work are similar, but then OM goes back in the genetic line whereas gholas "only" remember their own.


Concerning the difference between a clone and a ghola is it just the origin of the cells used that changes the "label"? Otherwise they'd be the same thing?(memories awakened even partially is still an amazing prowess)

[Freakzilla]

Reverend Mothers don't have death memories and they have OM.

but they can Share while gholas don't to my knowledge
Do you think the genetic memory of gholas and OM are the same?

No, but similar. Take note that RMs can only Share in the spice trance, or with death imminent.

If you cloned a RM, and she went though The Agony again, would she be able to Share her serial memories?

Ok the Spice Agony of RM and the shock trigger of gholas work are similar, but then OM goes back in the genetic line whereas gholas "only" remember their own.

Right.

Concerning the difference between a clone and a ghola is it just the origin of the cells used that changes the "label"? Otherwise they'd be the same thing?(memories awakened even partially is still an amazing prowess)

You've got Franks definition right up there ^^^

[lotek]

No, but similar. Take note that RMs can only Share in the spice trance, or with death imminent.

If you cloned a RM, and she went though The Agony again, would she be able to Share her serial memories?

Would a cloned RM without her own memories back survive the Agony?
Or maybe the Agony would provide the required lever, and then with her memories back she'd be able to transform the Water of Life and survive(as time streches for RMs during Agony plenty of time to do all that), in the contrary she'd die(but a ghola/clone wouldn't die just from failing to retrieve its memories)
Then she'd be fully restored and able to Share if need be

Concerning the difference between a clone and a ghola is it just the origin of the cells used that changes the "label"? Otherwise they'd be the same thing?(memories awakened even partially is still an amazing prowess)

You've got Franks definition right up there ^^^

it was a bit confusing as at first I thought that "ghola" meant "clone" in the Duniverse...
and at the beginning gholas were just like copies of one's person appearance without any conscious knowledge of their genetic past, and they had those cool metallic eyes too.

[Freakzilla]

Her body wouldn't have the prana-bindu conditioning required, her unrestored ghola/clone would have to undergo BG training again.

[lotek]

good point!
I forgot about that not so small detail!
SHAME SHAME

[Freakzilla]

The good thing is, she wouldn't remember the first fifty years or so of training until surviving The Agony!

[A Thing of Eternity]

Alright, gotta bump this. I'm reading GEoD right now, and if Duncan in that book is NOT a clone of Hayt then FH was either messing with everyone or just plain messed up. I realize that the Tleilax wouldn't have been able to get cells from his dead body, but what about stealing some during Hayt's life?

I haven't found anything in GEoD that shows Duncan being surprised at all by Muad'dib (different than Paul)- he recognizes "Muad'dib's knife" is a good example, and he remembers the twins as children. If he was just a clone of the original he would have not just been shocked by Leto II, he would have been completely lost, as he would have known nothing about what Paul did with the Fremen.

WTF? What was the concensus on this issue?

[Superdog]

Just because they couldn't get his corpse doesn't mean they couldn't have Hayt samples from various points in his life. Whether it be hair or something from his Imperial bedchambers or the blood from his quasi-suicide attempt when the Corrinos have him. He wouldn't have death memories but would have 90%+ of Hayt's life.

[A Thing of Eternity]

That's what I think as well, but I recalled the general agreement here being that Duncan was not Hayt - which doesn't jive with the book in my opinion so I wanted to revisit the discussion.

It's really bugging me as I read it actually. I'm hoping that I remember the concensus incorrectly, because everyone here is pretty smart and wouldn't have decide that without evidence, but it is driving me nuts as I read the book.

[A Thing of Eternity]

I hayt to beat a dead horse, but does anyone dissagree that the Duncans from Leto's time were indeed clones of Hayt, not the original Duncan corpse?

[D Pope]

Freak & merkin muffley covered it briefly in ch 6, GEoD. I was hung up on how he remembered the twins being born, same stuff though. As much as I disliked the answer I got, I could find no fault with their logic & just dropped it thinking there were copious discussions elsewhere. It's not often you hear an OH suggest that FH made a mistake.