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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 161
Message ID: 33
#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
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>>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