#17, RE: Acceptance of the Notion of Artificial Sentiance
Posted by Gryphon on Oct-20-01 at 05:00 PM
In response to message #16
>fact that beings native to fifty different worlds have genetic >patterns so close as to make them almost indistinguishable is >generally thought to be due to ancient star-spanning civilizations, >not just the Santovasku and Atlanteans, not just the older Galactic >Empire of the Padishah, but even predating the legendary lost >civlization of Mandalor. This would put such a civilization back prior >to 50,000 B. C. or so, and completely out of even the most tenuous >records. (And it's also wrong.) I like the "in the gods' image" theory, actually; I guess under that theory, things like the Dralasites were the gods taking a break and trying to think outside the box. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
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