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Isn’t that largely what is done in Excession? Of course, it is difficult to write about characters who at one point (I cannot find the quote right now [1]) is
by bouvin 6y ago
Isn’t that largely what is done in Excession?
Of course, it is difficult to write about characters who at one point (I cannot find the quote right now [1]) is described as being close to gods and not from the near side either.
[1] But detaro could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612860 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612860
- ben_w 6y ago"""I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side. We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you do, with so many more senses, such a greater store of memories and at such a fine level of detail. We die more slowly, and we die more completely, too.""" — Look to Windward, chapter 13 https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iain_Banks
- bouvin 6y agoExactly right, ;) I must have been editing my comment as you added yours.