Let's play that notion out to its logical conclusion, then.
[Which doesn't actually answer Grell's implicit question, which is arguably kind of an answer in itself.]
A power can be removed and transferred between one person and another. Does that suggest something like a talent can be, as well? That a person with no prior musical training might wake up one day knowing how to play the violin, while elsewhere a virtuoso has just utterly forgotten how? Could someone's senses? Motor functions? If one is possible, aren't all of the rest theoretically on the table?
Of course they are. When one deals with things that are essentially magic, then the rest become fair game. The blind might see, the voiceless speak. Mastery at a price.
But what makes you think that because someone has, another must lack? If one follows Ms. Wiseman's assertions, the violin player already knew, already had the potential, it was simply brought forth to the surface and left the virtuoso unscathed. No one is losing, save the concept of the self one knew until now. It becomes which is truth - past or present?
I'm thinking of a scenario similar to the way that all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares. It may be that not all transfers necessitate that one person lose and another gain. But if something is stolen...that implies a loss, by definition.
[Gosh, Carmen, whyever could your thoughts be going in that direction. What an enigma.]
In your professional opinion, something like that could still be possible?
Given everything I've personally seen and encountered so far with Retrospec, that's possible. Are you worried someone's going to steal something from you?
[No. Of course not. But the last thing she wants to do right now is to confess to the opposite; she's barely willing to consider admitting it to herself as it is, much less anyone else.]
I think it's a concern worth considering, given what we know and what we've seen. Don't you?
Somewhat. Though if someone were to steal something from me, I'd have to ask to what purpose? Call it selfish thinking, but if I can't yet discern the use of what I've been given, and I'm the one with the memories, what use would it be to a stranger?
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[it doesn't take a genius to decipher that much.]
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[Which doesn't actually answer Grell's implicit question, which is arguably kind of an answer in itself.]
A power can be removed and transferred between one person and another. Does that suggest something like a talent can be, as well? That a person with no prior musical training might wake up one day knowing how to play the violin, while elsewhere a virtuoso has just utterly forgotten how? Could someone's senses? Motor functions? If one is possible, aren't all of the rest theoretically on the table?
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But what makes you think that because someone has, another must lack? If one follows Ms. Wiseman's assertions, the violin player already knew, already had the potential, it was simply brought forth to the surface and left the virtuoso unscathed. No one is losing, save the concept of the self one knew until now. It becomes which is truth - past or present?
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[Gosh, Carmen, whyever could your thoughts be going in that direction. What an enigma.]
In your professional opinion, something like that could still be possible?
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[which is a valid concern, in Grell's view.]
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[No. Of course not. But the last thing she wants to do right now is to confess to the opposite; she's barely willing to consider admitting it to herself as it is, much less anyone else.]
I think it's a concern worth considering, given what we know and what we've seen. Don't you?
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[Still, though, she looks vaguely discomforted.]
Regardless, it's only a hypothetical.