Jones Beene wrote:
That principle is **diversity** And that is even true, despite the fact we barely have scratched the surface as to implementing full diversity here, but maybe as slight as that advance is here, it is a an entirely new meme - even to the aliens and Overlords... Are you listening, Valis?
Ackshully, I think you have come damned close to the answer here. Remember Steven's post on Quartermain's Pit? I think hiveminds are the rule and we are the exception. Even Sir Clarke's "Childhoods End" says so. A cosmic experiment: can a civilization survive as individuals? Are the only survivors of Drake's filter unified minds? Not pets, mind you . . . an experiment.
That's my 'alienist' sermonette for this beautiful Sunday...
Well, it's been raining all damned day here in Atlanta.
