#33, RE: Acceptance of the Notion of Artificial Sentiance
Posted by Nathan on Oct-21-01 at 06:39 PM
In response to message #31
> >>Hmmm... are these Niven's bandersnatchi or something completely >>different? > >Neither Gryphon nor I are terribly fond of Niven's works. I make an >exception for bandersnatchi, though, because I like the idea of a >giant armored legless slab of meat which is (a) intelligent, and (b) >sells licenses for other species to hunt it. Well if you were a 60 ton lump of intellegent white flesh, wouldn't you be pretty bored? And whatever else one of those hunts might be, it'll definitely be... interesting. Blessed be. Nathan Baxter
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