Avalon and Esperance are so close that their constellations are mostly the same. Philippe Rochefort reflects:
"Three or four parsecs hardly count in the galaxy.
"Does a life? I must believe so." (p. 87)
Two questions:
Does a life count to living beings? Yes.
Does a life count to anything other than living beings? I do not see how it can but why should it? That we "count" to ourselves surely suffices? It is we who decide whether to stay alive.
Rochefort subscribes to a world-view that projects the source of value onto a reality outside conscious organisms.
Electric light is valuable whether its source is supernatural or material, as are brains that generate consciousness.
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