Anders Sandberg wrote:
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> The interesting question is of course if he would have become the
> world-class physicist he is today without his illness. It may have forced
> him into theoretical physics.
>
Anders got to what I was thinking: pleitropy of genes and that
combination of genes acting together as a system. Hawkins was a well
known scientist before he started to show any symptoms, but how would
removing the so-called bad genes effect the clone?