Talk:Cannibalism/@comment-29561365-20190910190946/@comment-2001:A61:2BBD:2F01:69E3:1202:C327:4E06-20190921174010

In the best case scenario, nothing, as they are reincorporating something that they lost. The simple idea is this: Ghoul has A rc cells (or nutrients, energy, something), it consumes himself (now is A - C), it reincorporated to his body (A - C + C = A)

Worst case scenario (and more plausible): they reincorporate some, not all, of what they consumed (A - C + C/X, with X being the penalty, such as loss of energy in form of heat).

I think I get your point, but the thing is: for evolving, ghouls require a higher concentration of RC cells. By themselves, they cannot increase it, as consuming themselves only gives them a little bit less than what they lost. And even if they have, let’s say, a positive feedback mechanism in their metabolism, in which actually sensing RC cells in their stomach/intestine makes them produce more, they will be creating them using nutrients destined to other relevant biological process.