> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ah yes, ACC's "Childhood's End" may yet be our ultimate destiny!
The truly interesting idea is that that destiny may be what makes us different and a possible object of scrutiny of Others. IMNSHO, <g> it is more likely that all intelligent civilizations have a "hive mind". Now, we are not totally autonomous, a la Jung's cosmic unconscious. In AC's "CE" the demon alien was essentially a midwife. Clearly, *some* civilisations birthed without those midwives. Incidentally, some modern philosophers think that the Internet is our prosthesis for that lack of mental communications. As far as verbal communications goes, my wife's BAUD rate far exceeds mine. ;-)
