Story där juvenil datorprogram försöker fungera bra i klassen tillräckligt länge för att laddas ner till levande varelse?

Låter som Greg Bears Eternity , uppföljare till den fantastiska Eon . Olmy och Suli Ram Kikura skapar en son, Tapi, i City Memory, och när han har gått igenom "inbyggnadsprov" där kan han få en riktig kropp.

Working in city memory for eight days (almost a year in accelerated time) they and their partials had combined the parental mysteries, selected large blocks of parental memory for endowment at certain growth stages, and overlaid the templates with great care to create the mentality they would call Tapi. [...] Some conceived in city memory had as many as six parents. Tapi was biparental, with a predisposition toward masculinity.

Historien är " inkarnationsdag " av Walter Jon Williams, som ursprungligen publicerades 2007 i "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume One"

The story of growing up is the story of slowly moving away from being completely dependent on your parents and becoming your own person. But, what if you parents didn't have to let you grow up? What if they could simply delete you?

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