Liner Notes 5
A few notes on the fifth story in my space opera serial Realm of Pure Thought and the micro-essay Life and Death.
Liner Notes 5
Ha ha it’s a big brain in a box.
So this episode focuses on Quintilius, the Minervan, a Latin speaking human being from another planet and the team’s cultural expert. It’s his job to make sure they interface with the contacted culture and ensure everyone has the information they need. We see a bit of him deciding between alternative translations and what that means.
I refer to the Babylonians as bureaucratic, but they’re also feudal, and coming at the Deep Patrol from their own point of view. If there’s an ongoing theme in the first set of stories it’s that everyone is interested in their own struggles, and don’t care about the bigger picture. Will that come back to bite them in the bum?
Liner Notes 5a
Are two people who appear identical actually the same person? Even if they both have continuity of experience up until the forking of lifetime? If not, then bringing someone back from the dead is actually making a copy. Or is identity more complicated; after all people change physically and mentally over time, yet we know they’re the same person. Don’t we?
Liner Notes 5
Ha ha it’s a big brain in a box.
So this episode focuses on Quintilius, the Minervan, a Latin speaking human being from another planet and the team’s cultural expert. It’s his job to make sure they interface with the contacted culture and ensure everyone has the information they need. We see a bit of him deciding between alternative translations and what that means.
I refer to the Babylonians as bureaucratic, but they’re also feudal, and coming at the Deep Patrol from their own point of view. If there’s an ongoing theme in the first set of stories it’s that everyone is interested in their own struggles, and don’t care about the bigger picture. Will that come back to bite them in the bum?
Liner Notes 5a
Are two people who appear identical actually the same person? Even if they both have continuity of experience up until the forking of lifetime? If not, then bringing someone back from the dead is actually making a copy. Or is identity more complicated; after all people change physically and mentally over time, yet we know they’re the same person. Don’t we?
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