-SM Stirling, The Golden Princess (New York, 2015), Chapter Fourteen, p. 327.
When clouds looked like gates to another world, how could our ancestors have failed to believe that they were gates to another world? In Maine, thunder sounded like a giant tripping over mountains. (See here.) Compare Poul Anderson's "Hunters of the Sky Cave." An alien race thinks that a nebula is their hereafter.
"One of her cousins back home had blinding headaches every week and forgot things all the time because he'd gotten kicked in the head by a mean stallion." (p. 332)
What better demonstration that consciousness is entirely dependent on states of the body and will cease entirely when the body ceases to function?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
You beat me to mentioning how some of the Ardazirho of WE CLAIM THESE STARS thought the nebula around a coalescing new star was where their after world was located.
As for the unfortunate man kicked in the head by a horse, I would say that is merely an example of how human beings are a UNION of body and soul. Including how injuries to the physical brain can make it difficult for the soul to fully use the brain.
Sean
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