(urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/22/2011 6:19 AM, António Pedro Marques wrote:
> Jeff Wilson wrote (22-12-2011 04:22):
>> On 12/21/2011 10:58 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>>> "psi" is a fancy word for magic.
>>
>> Outside the context of speculative fiction, perhaps. It was intended
>> to mean
>> a physical process that could occasionally be mistaken for the magic
>> of myth
>> and legend but could be studied objectively They have very different
>> connotations and spiritual implications.
>
> But one can't just decree something to be 'psi'. There has to be a shred
> of plausibility.

Severian perceives that he is being zapped by the twin hemispheres of 
Decuman's brain in a way that illuminates him but also imposes a 
particular depressive emotion that saps his will to continue in the 
contest. This is apparently direct brain to brain coersion.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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