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Shecky:
--- Quote from: neurovore on May 12, 2008, 04:58:26 PM ---When all else fails, though, Occam's razor feels more scientific than postulating extra-scientific agencies to me.
I suspect I find software-is-sentience more easy to believe than many people because I have seen more examples of how easy it is to program the appearance of sentient behvaiour into something.
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... which brings us back to the Zombie Apocalypse link you gave us (highly entertaining, by the way!). ;)
All this says is that the concept of will affecting material reality is, at present, a moot point, both in and of itself and as a tool for fiction. *shrugs* Nice topic, though; I've spent many an hour talking about it and related subjects.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Suilan on May 12, 2008, 02:43:38 PM ---If it were, Star Wars couldn't be considered SciFi. (Nor Star Trek or Babylon5, though the Jedi Knights are really the closest thing to wizards that scifi's got.)
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Yet some people still wonder why
We say "SF" instead of "SciFi";
It's because there's a fine line
Between Robert Heinlein
And "Son of the Two-Headed Fly".
Star Wars is fantasy.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: neurovore on May 12, 2008, 05:17:59 PM ---Star Wars is fantasy.
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Why? Not that I disagree completely, but what's to stop SF from having fantastic elements? Look at Heinlein's multiperson pantheistic solipsism if you want to see BIG-time mental effects on physical reality couched in SF.
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Blacque Jacque Shellacque on May 12, 2008, 06:18:07 PM ---Why? Not that I disagree completely, but what's to stop SF from having fantastic elements? Look at Heinlein's multiperson pantheistic solipsism if you want to see BIG-time mental effects on physical reality couched in SF.
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Because George Lucas said so.
Yeratel:
--- Quote from: neurovore on May 12, 2008, 05:17:59 PM ---
Star Wars is fantasy.
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Well, really, it's Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies rewritten with lightsabres.
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