"...need not derive in any way from the 'outside.' They could be works of imagination - fairy-tale worlds, perhaps, where benevolent gods ruled and magic ran free. Always, the logic of their boundary conditions caused them to develop appropriately, to be at home in their existences."
-Poul Anderson, Genesis (New York, 2001), Part Two, V, p. 146.
Thus, Anderson's inter-universal inn, the Old Phoenix, meeting place for characters from works of fantasy and sf, might be a nexus between emulations within a vaster post-organic intelligence than Gaia?
For a speculation about how such emulations might encompass the Time Patrol universe, see here.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I thought this rather an alarming speculation by you! The Old Phoenix Inn a mere nexus with a far vaster post organic intelligence than Gaia? Again, the Red King's dream came to mind!
Sean
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