What is a "Ghola"?

[Procyon]

What is a "Ghola"?

[Usul]

A human who has been reserected by the Tlilaxu. A Ghola has no memories before its death exept after Dune Messiah when they earn how to (they don't often though thanks to the God Emporer).

[Caid Ivik]

Clone with same soul as model had. Like resurrected, just you don't need to be dead.

[Mahdi]

Clone with same soul as model had. Like resurrected, just you don't need to be dead.

Ho, ho ,ho, close but no cigar. A ghola is most definatly NOT a clone. Clone's are banned in the duniverse, as evidenced in GEOD when discussing Hwi's origins, and Chapterhouse Dune, when discussing Teg.

Once every couple months we end up with a clone vs ghola arguement.

[Zopwx2]

then whats the difference between a clone and a ghola?

[Major_Gilbear]

One is a reanimation of an existing body, the other is the copying of the original body. A Ghola is the former, a Clone the latter. Simple.

[Mahdi]

Exactly.

[Zopwx2]

so it must be dead. and you don't need all of the body just a few cells. becuase the tlieaxu used their "tanks" to grow the rest of it.

[Major_Gilbear]

You must be dead to be reanimated, yes. Not so to be cloned. But the literature in the books is basically against cloning. So the Tleilaxu reanimate the corpse, wahtever techinique they use/describe.

[Caid Ivik]

That was I saying! Like clone, but fully copied with same mind and soul. Mahdi, next time read more than first word ;) Ghola is a reborn person. Not reanimated, other bodies are usually "turned off" as in God Emperor it was with Duncan.