Throughput

I have just returned from the gym, an opportunity for simultaneous physical exercise and creative thinking. I return with perhaps two further reflections on recent posts.

Isaac Asimov wrote somewhere that every new input to his brain was automatically processed to see if it would yield a Black Widowers story. A guy I knew met Asimov and said to him that he thought that, if AIs could be created, then they would be the true aliens. Asimov replied, "Yes... I might get a story out of that..."

Similarly, every new input to my brain is processed for blogging material. I do not have to be reading Poul Anderson. A contemporary novel by another author can suggest questions about aspects of society in the Solar Commonwealth or the Terran Empire. Hence, recent posts on communication and trade unions.

Secondly, I think that there is a conceptual error here and will address it in another post.