(urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/14/2010 8:41 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
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> On 12/14/2010 8:08 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>> Gr. don't have my books with me, but IIRC, the man from whom Jonas got
>> replacement parts was from Urth, a
>> ground casualty of the crash, not a shipmate. Have to check later.

> Yes, it was. it may have been a country villlager, for all we know.
> Recall that Severian thought Jonas a peasant because of his folksy
> speech, but that was actually sailor's speech. If his ship did crash
> near the House, his meat memories could be those of a servant of the
> House---perhaps one who knew of the mirrors. I don't see why Metal Jonas
> could not access Meat Jonas's memories.

Sidero could not access Sev's memories despite his adverse pccupation 
when it would have been very useful to do so, so there's no precedent 
for the suit-robots to have mind-reading or memory-probing capacity. 
They do seem to have certain neural or electrical induction abilities to 
allow "silent" communication with the occupant.

Robo-Jonas' fragmentary memories may be due to 1) lingering crash damage 
and 2) exceeding his original mission capabilities - no one expected a 
ship's bot to need the capacity to accumulate very large amounts of 
geographical information without access to upgrades or at least proper 
maintenance.


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