Shame there wasn't a reference to Ian. M. Banks work Excession which dealt with this subject. "An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilizati

Shame there wasn't a reference to Ian. M. Banks work Excession which dealt with this subject. "An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilizations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession