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--- Quote from: knnn on October 23, 2015, 04:25:12 PM ---um, what? Where is this quote?
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Well damn, spent 20 minutes looking and I cant find it. It was very recent, I think somebody asked him if the outer gates could gain sentience over time in the way that things like the Athame apparently do, and he said that even if it did it would just become more aware of it's 'Here-ness'. I think it was the same one where he says the Outer gates dont actually look like that, but that what we saw was how Harry's brain had to interpret what it was seeing into simple concepts.
EDIT: (click to show/hide) from the Q&A with Grid Scifi:
--- Quote ---Q: The Gate seems like something that, if it didn’t start with a consciousness, would develop it over time. Is that the case?
A: It probably is, but the consciousness of an inanimate object like that is mostly like that of a mountain. “I AM HERE.” And it’s just increasingly aware of its here-ness. The Gate actually exists very differently than what Harry saw, but that’s how Harry has to interpret it because it’s far out in the Nevernever. Your mind has to put things into terms it can understand or you go squirrely. Harry’s got a very good mind for reducing things to simple ideas. Which most of the Senior Council would say with a roll of their eyes.
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knnn:
Oh yeah, I think I recall that one. It's suggestive and interesting, but oh so open to interpretation.
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--- Quote from: knnn on October 23, 2015, 05:01:40 PM ---Oh yeah, I think I recall that one. It's suggestive and interesting, but oh so open to interpretation.
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I know right? All it takes is a single "probably" and it all becomes as solids as jello. ;D
knnn:
The way I would interpret that WoJ is that *if* the Gates were a regular "construct" (like demonreach?), then the amount of energies involved would have given it some form of sentinence. But, since the Gates are actually something else entirely (a "living" creature? A mantle made solid? A physical manifestation of one of the fundemental laws of the universe?), then this rule doesn't apply.
Note that this interpretation somewhat contradicts Harry's impressions of the gate -- that is actually is a physcial object (need to recheck who he talks to about this Rashid/MS and what their response is).
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--- Quote from: knnn on October 23, 2015, 05:14:35 PM ---The way I would interpret that WoJ is that *if* the Gates were a regular "construct" (like demonreach?), then the amount of energies involved would have given it some form of sentience. But, since the Gates are actually something else entirely (a "living" creature? A mantle made solid? A physical manifestation of one of the fundamental laws of the universe?), then this rule doesn't apply.
Note that this interpretation somewhat contradicts Harry's impressions of the gate -- that is actually is a physcial object (need to recheck who he talks to about this Rashid/MS and what their response is).
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I tend to lean that way as well, with this as a more general statement about Sites and large inanimate objects with Power/awareness. Those first three words give me pause though; I think they imply that the Gates are indeed Aware, but for different reasons than are being implied by the questioner.
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