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Published: 2010-01-09 02:51:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 17512; Favourites: 120; Downloads: 423
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I was doing some thinking as to how the Philosophers stone works. In theory, it gives you immortality. It also empowers you to alchemy and magic. Well I was thinking along the edge of immortality and how it would work. Well I read some really old books on ancient alchemy and how the philosophers stone works. The stone fuses your soul and mind to every cell of your body. Basicly, you become whole. You are. You are also what we would call a homonculus. Thats why those who are homonculi have the ability to regenerate.With this array, you can completely avoid the hassle of dying! You live forever!!!! Now some might be wondering, what happens if you want to die? I can understand why you would want that if you have been alive so long. Well That is though another array that shall soon be uploaded...
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a much simpler way to die would be to break the array rather than to create another.
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Does this require something like a Philosopher's Dtone?
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In my little version and in my opinion, no, it would not.
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im studying alchemy and i was wondering how exactly to USE alchemy and what this could make?
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Sadly, one cannot just use alchemy. For me, it's just a fun art form I have put much of my life into. In the theoretical world, Alchemy can be used for anything! This array, specifically, doesn't really make anything, it just improves what's already there.
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Would you be willing to do another, taking this one apart and explaining why it should work? Personally, that's the most interesting part.
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on a technecial level how could a transmutation circle give you imortality without taking human lives?
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It's a theory based that if you were to affix your soul to every part of your body, you would become immortal. It's not a well based theory, more of a though that became an array, but as I saw it, your soul could rebuild all your body because once something was damaged, your body could just pull itself back together.
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Ohhh I think I understand. Supposedly the soul is immortal and can't be destroyed, while the body can. If the soul and mind ( a nice thing to note is the mind and soul are considered the same in ancient greek philosophy) which are both immortal were to be affixed to the entire body then that body would be immortal and it would be complete. Wow this is very interesting and I didn't think a connection like that would exist. Very nice indeed as it all reminds me of some of Plato's teachings.
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ok i understand although it would be sweet if it existed
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immortality. nifty. a shame about those sacrifices, though..
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For few to be immortal, many must die.
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I wish it would. Death scares the hell out of me...
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I need some clarification on some things...
As I can recall, Lust died in FMA because she was "killed" (rather, regenerated) too many times -- I suppose this would be the equivalent to "old age" for Hommuncculi -- but that's FMA alchemy, which you clarified as being different from the alchemy of the real world.
The human body does have the ability to repair and regenerate itself to a certain extent. However, living tissue can only reproduce a certain amount of times because DNA can only be copied a limited amount of times. Even more so, each replication of DNA only shortens the strand more.
The Philosopher's stone fuses the soul and mind to every cell of the body. Do the cells then stop reproducing or are they put in a suspended state? Or do they continually regenerate/replicate in an infinite cycle because the cells in their body are "whole"?
And another topic: is it possible that the use of a Philosopher's stone increases your chances of getting cancer? After all, a body itself cannot recognize cancer because the disease is not foreign.
I think that just about covers it.
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You are exactly correct on your cancer comment. If you had cancer at the time of the array, you would have it forever. But, it would not hurt you any more than it already was.
I essence, you are forever stuck the way you were at the time of the transmutation.
Your cells also will no longer replicate. They will forever be the same cells, but they will not die off. It would be like making a structure that lasts forever. But if your cells were to be damaged, they would decompose and recompose back where they originally were.
And you cannot get cancer worse. It cant affect any other cells.
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Your explanation is greatly appreciated.
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I would love to hear about the connection of what you are talking about to your piece here.
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I dont know what connection you are talking about. Sorry, but im a little messy right now so maybe im not reading everything right. Thus, I really dont understand.
Again, sorry.
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