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user-inactivated  ·  4067 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An Open Letter to Evolutionary Anthropologist Cadell Last - Evolution News & Views

I guess I like that ... now. At 10? Not so much. And the way Clarke portrays the emotional trauma of the process, coupled with the melancholy of the ending, doesn't leave me with an upbeat, mindmeld is the best meld attitude.

But I didn't like Asimov's take on Gaia either -- did you read that? -- so maybe I just subconsciously find the concept unsettling.