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[jovus]

Reading William Gibson is good for the soul. I think it functions as my muse, at least for now; a sort of surrogate creativity playing constructive interference with my own as-yet infantile source. Speaking of doing so, I downloaded Burning Chrome and Count Zero, and am quite enjoying myself

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[andreiburnside]

Reminds me of the entire concept of Stanislaw Lem's solaris. You know, that we really can't understand each other, or truly know one another?

It is only through mental simulation that we can come to understand each other, and even that is highly inaccurate and biased (AKA Sympathy/Empathy). Even then, we understand an individual's response in specific conditions.

And then there's women, who we never really can understand at all.

[jovus]

It is exactly the concept behind Solaris, though I claim an independent thought process to arrive at my conclusions. Except, with a twist; I take the functionalist point of view and say, "Define the difference between understanding and the simulation of understanding, if they both attain the same result," thus calling the whole debate redundant.

[anonymous]

eeee!
hullo.