Re: _2001_: Optimistic or pessimistic, en fin?

From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 14:36:52 MST

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From: "Jim Fehlinger" <fehlinger@home.com>
> I always thought this was a perfectly respectable, if no longer
particularly
> fresh, sci-fi trope. Cf., for example, Isaac Asimov's 1965 short story
> "Eyes Do More Than See". Or any number of TV shows, even.

I suppose a lot of things are perfectly respectable, and perfectly
entropic.

τΏτ

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--J. R.

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free will

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