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Heechee Saga is a wonderful piece of science fiction, making humans think of many controversial themes. Especially likes of us, Hackers, Scientists, IT workers.
by fsniper 13y ago
Heechee Saga is a wonderful piece of science fiction, making humans think of many controversial themes. Especially likes of us, Hackers, Scientists, IT workers. Some of these themes are;
- What happens after you die?
- If possible would you record your consciousness into a computer?
- If some kind of human recordings and/or simulations are possible
what happens to the source person's inheritance/belongings?
- How would consciousness cope with energy outages?
- What of human - computer love affairs?
- Can we correctly analyse Extra Terrestrial artefacts?
- How would science and society behave in rationing possible synthetic food
in case of global famine or drought?
- If we ever build synthetic body parts that's
absolutely compatible with human bodies and can replace
old/defect ones who can reach these?
I'm very sorry about Mr.Pohl's death. If a human recording was possible he was someone worthy of binary encoding.
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- JoeAltmaier 13y agoI loved his work. It was about expanding our horizons. But sometimes the narrative would suffer. Why could super-intelligent energy lifeforms not conceive that matter-based creatures were intelligent, but human science fiction writers could imagine that energy-creatures could be? Do 10^17 super-intelligences inside a black hole have no science fiction writers at all among them?
- fsniper 13y agoThey were non fiction intelligences. Also they were so afraid of the upcoming doom so they locked themselves in a blackhole and lost track of time outside. (U.S. see the resemblence?). But of course some matters are mind tingling :-) This can't soil his brilliance.
- JoeAltmaier 13y agoNo,not soil certainly. But I remember my great disappointment when the entire Heechee series' ultimate mystery turned out to be - that superintelligent beings couldn't conceive of something a science fiction author could.
- fsniper 13y agoby the way universe is amazing. In many many ways :)