[Dragaera] some comments on _The Incrementalists_

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On 2013-10-01 20:44, Jon Lincicum wrote:

> The whole aspect of having a battle of personalities in the spiking process where one will always subsume and dominate the other was obviously a big part of the premise of the story (really, the key premise when it came to Celeste). However, I wonder if this is always the case? Perhaps there are situations where the Second is almost equal in strength to the personality in the stub they are spiked with? As I see it, this could result in either a split personality problem where the resulting Incrementalist is constantly flipping back and forth, or perhaps instead, in a fusion personality that is neither the same as the Primary, or that of the new Second. 
> 
> I think this latter idea appeals to me more, personally. A hybrid personality emerges that combines traits from the two being joined. Not exactly the same as either of the originals, but not entirely dissimilar either. I wonder how many Incrementalists are out there like that. (We see a small example of this, perhaps, in Phil, with his affinity for baseball, which he never had before Chuck. I'm thinking in other cases, this sort of residual influence is more pronounced.)
> 

I find it hard to believe that the outcome, occasionally over the rather
LONG span of history of the group (and hence
LARGE number of spikings), isn't insanity of some form.

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