Thursday 15 November 2018

Isis And Amaterasu

Poul Anderson, Harvest Of Stars, 63.

Noboru, first-born of Anson and Demeter Daughter, knows download Guthrie and Demeter Mother.

A few living human beings, transported to Isis in the 82 Eridani System or to Amaterasu in the Beta Hydri System, will help machines and downloads to terraform those planets. However, most people will go as downloads to be activated, then transformed into organic human beings, when the environment and its Life Mother are ready for them. They can be endlessly resurrected. Downloads of Demeter Daughter will become the Life Mothers of Isis, Amaretasu and Kwan-Yin, the planet in Puppis that organic beings will not reach but where they can be initiated. Future human beings will be able to terraform lifeless worlds and therefore will no longer need to invade existing ecologies. They might also recontact the Terrestrial sophotects as equals.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

However interesting and fascinating these speculations of Anderson were, I simply don't believe, for example, that artificial neural networks will be LIKELY. Which means no downloading of human personalities into new bodies prepared for them. But it good to read about such speculations, however skeptical of them I might be.

Sean