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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=danldo@gmail.com
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Gerry Quinn wrote:<BR><BR>> > What powers of Mucor are you saying are
magic?<BR><BR>> All of them.</DIV></DIV>
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she has a modified brain, and the things she does are similar to the things done
by others, who do not seem to do them by magic. Why do you say Mucor in
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<DIV><BR><BR>> > The Whorl gods’ possession<BR>> > of people is
explicitly glossed as technology rather than magic,<BR><BR>>
Correct.<BR><BR>> > and that surely also involves the soul.<BR><BR>>
Not so fast. We get nothing from the point of view of a possessed<BR>>
person, except at a double remove (what is told to Silk, as re-related<BR>>
from him to the authors of the Book of Silk). </DIV></DIV>
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but since neither Silk nor Horn was ever possessed, that is the only information
we can have. It is intrinsic in the structure of the book, and not a
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by a god seems to be quite similar to possession by Mucor. It leaves
similar traces: Mamelta says “I feel I am Mucor”. While the possessee may
not remember events, they seem to be compatible with what we are told by
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<DIV><BR>> > Do chems have souls?<BR><BR>> They seem to!<BR><BR>>
> One imagines so, and Mucor doesn’t mistake Quetzal for one.
Yet<BR>> > their soul presumably starts off as a computer
program.<BR><BR>> No. A chem's _mind_ starts as a program. The mind is not
the soul.</DIV>
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<DIV>If a chem’s soul is not its mind, what is it?</DIV>
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<DIV>And what about the Whorl gods? We are told what they put inside
possessees is the pattern of the god, the program. That seems to identify
the soul with the program, and by extension the mind. </DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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