I did not know this! I appreciate the lesson. :) In the case where any part that retains DNA (or VNA - Vortex Nucleic Acids?) still exists, I imagine he'd be able to knit himself back together.
I wonder, though, if there might be a temperature (hypothetically rather than rationally) at which all remains are reduced to ash. Like, for example, if we threw Jack into the center of the sun?
You're absolutely right on the point of sentience - but my head is just having such a hard time defining sentient ash. When they severed the crispy-fried bomber, he blinked. But his eyes were still attached to his brain; the brain shouldn't be functioning, but it was still there, so I think that's where my own brain shorts out with the ash-and-bone-fragments people. The bone wouldn't be more sentient than bone already is, unless it's Super Bone (which...sounds like a pornstar superhero).
And would Owen still be sentient if they had burned him? I mean, nuclear melt-down, right? Are there sentient Owen-bits still in Cardiff?
Conceptually, I get it. It's the practicality that has me confused, I suppose.
Yeah, the "I AM MAD AT BURNING PEOPLE! I WILL BLOW THEM UP INSTEAD!" thing had me scratching my head a bit. I assume there were people still in there/around. And that's...well, clearly Gwen has changed, huh?
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I wonder, though, if there might be a temperature (hypothetically rather than rationally) at which all remains are reduced to ash. Like, for example, if we threw Jack into the center of the sun?
You're absolutely right on the point of sentience - but my head is just having such a hard time defining sentient ash. When they severed the crispy-fried bomber, he blinked. But his eyes were still attached to his brain; the brain shouldn't be functioning, but it was still there, so I think that's where my own brain shorts out with the ash-and-bone-fragments people. The bone wouldn't be more sentient than bone already is, unless it's Super Bone (which...sounds like a pornstar superhero).
And would Owen still be sentient if they had burned him? I mean, nuclear melt-down, right? Are there sentient Owen-bits still in Cardiff?
Conceptually, I get it. It's the practicality that has me confused, I suppose.
Yeah, the "I AM MAD AT BURNING PEOPLE! I WILL BLOW THEM UP INSTEAD!" thing had me scratching my head a bit. I assume there were people still in there/around. And that's...well, clearly Gwen has changed, huh?