See Beyond Our Ken and History, Paradoxes And Beyond.
Poul Anderson, The Avatar.
Much of the Others' technology is no long necessary because:
"The achievements they seek are more subtle - too subtle for our perceiving. (If you chisel out a statue, your dog sees that a lump of stone is changed a bit in shape.)" (XLV, p. 376)
A few fragments of the Others' perceived reality will not harm Joelle any more than a lecture on relativity would harm an ape. (XLVI, p. 380)
Stapledon: a cat and finance;
Anderson: a dog and a statue, an ape and relativity;
Stirling: a man and a God.
Are there realities that would be that far beyond our comprehension?
The image is only metaphorically appropriate because a tesseract is comprehensible, just not visualizable.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, I believe there are realities that are far beyond the natural powers or abilities of human beings to comprehend. God and the angels, for instance.
Sean
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