(urth) First Exodus theory revised

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "António Pedro Marques" <entonio at gmail.com>
>> In fact he
>> treated some people (such as Piaton) as robots. Maybe he treated almost
>> everyone as robots, in fact - consider the whole possession technology
>> for controlling them! Mamelta tells us how everyone was wired up in a
>> sort of always-on internet, with Typhon's family wandering through their
>> heads. That is before some of them were forced abourd the Whorl and
>> given brain operations.
>
> Yep. It all sounds like blatant disregard for anyone else's feelings. Why 
> should he be concerned with the well-being of a computer program?

Suppose we accept your argument that Typhon had a particular disdain for 
computer programs (though it makes it very odd that he had digitised 
versions of his family made to accompany Pas).  What difference does it make 
to anything?  Pas rules the Whorl, not Typhon.

- Gerry Quinn