Spoilers:
In Stephenson's excellent Snow Crash,
Da5id's brain is "crashed" with the Snow Crash virus. Later, the inhabitants of the raft are "rebooted" with the nam-shub of Enki...
Could this be used to heal him, or was he just screwed?
asked Feb 29, 2012 at 16:23
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This is never addressed overtly in the book, but my impression is that it's very likely that the Nam-Shub would do the trick. Additionally, my assumption is that if the Nam-Shub itself is not sufficient to restore Da5id's health, Juanita's newfound abilities as a ba'al-shem would be able to perform a more surgical fix.
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Good point! I'd forgotten about that. Presumably as long as the hardware isn't too damaged, she can patch the software... Feb 29, 2012 at 21:32
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A lot of it depends on if the data is scrambled, or if the harddrive was formatted and overwritten with random patterns of 1s and 0s... Apr 22, 2016 at 4:45
I was under the impression that Da5id was permanently brain-damaged. However, in my "head canon," I like to imagine that he eventually woke up, but thought he was a Sumerian god, and started a cult.
As for the others, they were only brainwashed, not turned into vegetables, so I think they might be salvageable.
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3Welcome to SFF:SE. Head canon is exactly what this site is not about. We seek answers based on sources that can be referenced. It's easy to confuse this site for a discussion forum. I encourage you to browse through highly-voted past answers to see examples of what we're looking for. We hope you stick around and contribute. :-)– PraxisApr 22, 2016 at 5:14