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  "thread": {
    "id": 1684,
    "subject": "Android Souls, Re: (urth) Re: Antechamber, Jonas, navigator",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-06-12T19:03:55+00:00",
    "last": "1999-06-12T19:03:55+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0027-0089@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Mitchell A. Bailey",
        "address": "mab at lindau.net"
      },
      "date": "1999-06-12T19:03:55+00:00",
      "subject": "Android Souls, Re: (urth) Re: Antechamber, Jonas, navigator",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
      "blocks": [
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Peter Stephenson wrote:\n\n\"Roy C. Lackey\" wrote:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "... Ascribing"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 2,
          "text": "human emotions such as \"shock\", \"agitation\", loyalty, love, friendship,\nloss, etc. to an android are misplaced."
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "I don't think it can be that simple.  As someone was saying just earlier in\nthe week, Wolfe writes about non-humans as if they have `souls' in some\nsense.  They're not completely human --- but they're not completely inhuman\neither, just like Jonas himself.  ...\ncorncrake"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Who was it who wrote earlier that Wolfe regularly explores the\nboundaries of what constitutes humanity? \" If it's possible for someone\nto lose his humanity, surely it must be possible for something that once\nhad none to find it\". Severian referred specifically to Jonas in that\nremark (IV, ch. X). Or look in 5HC, in \"Fifth Head\" where Number Five\nattempts to question Mr. Million regarding whether he has a soul or just\nsome very sophisticated programming capable of \"simulating\" a soul for\nthe observer. Mr. Million pleads ignorance, citing the lack of a frame\nof reference from which he could explore the matter."
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