This is fantastic. Recently I've been thinking about how to do the smaller scales just to give myself a better sense of things like the border between chemistry and biology. If I come up with anything I'll send it to you.
> Indeed, because I’m using it to describe a not-entirely-pleasant process! Egan was big on this: you lose something when you develop a modern mind.
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Thanks for bringing this up. I can’t help but think this is deeply connected to the culture wars — which seems to have infected almost everything these days!
Does Egan (or you) ever clarify what exactly we lose, and whether (how) it is possible to recover it?
This is fantastic. Recently I've been thinking about how to do the smaller scales just to give myself a better sense of things like the border between chemistry and biology. If I come up with anything I'll send it to you.
> Indeed, because I’m using it to describe a not-entirely-pleasant process! Egan was big on this: you lose something when you develop a modern mind.
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Thanks for bringing this up. I can’t help but think this is deeply connected to the culture wars — which seems to have infected almost everything these days!
Does Egan (or you) ever clarify what exactly we lose, and whether (how) it is possible to recover it?
P.S. Ork Ork :-)