(urth) First Exodus theory revised

[António Pedro Marques]

Gerry Quinn wrote (11-02-2011 13:43):
>
> 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

? That's emphatically *not* what I said.

> (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.

You're the one talking about Pas's intentions. I said that there is no 
reason why *Typhon* should want Pas to possess a hypothetical heir of Typhon.