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

That book ... troubled me as a kid. Enjoyable, brilliant, troubling.

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lil · 4067 days ago · link ·

I found it kind of comforting when all the human consciousnesses seemed to meld together at the end into a big cloud (a binary star system?). I think A C Clark was asking where evolution was heading. Is that your understanding?

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user-inactivated · 4067 days ago · link ·

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.

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