On 4 September 2014 17:02, Stephen Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are the resources available to the OverLords that would allow the sharing > to be "cost-free" then it would make no difference, otherwise.... > > (In "Childhood's End" the *Overlords *were the race who helped other races to join the Overmind; they were unable to do so themselves, for some reason.) But leaving that aside, I'm not sure your question makes sense when you're dealing with a transcendental state of existence. How do you work out the "costs" when you're talking about of synergy, where the sum of the parts is exceeded by the totality, perhaps exceeded by an astronomical factor? It seems like asking if there is a "cost" that would stop single celled animals "wanting" to form multicellular ones. Almost certainly there is - they give up their autonomy, become specialised, and may be sacrificed for the good of the organism ... etc. But that doesn't mean we don't, or shouldn't, exist, or that we should want to be a trillion bacteria. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
