Losing Imitation

James Wynn · 30 Dec 2010, 16:00 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:00:12 -0600
Subject: (urth) Losing Imitation
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> Lee-
> James, we may still disagree on Aunt Jeannine's assessment of whether abos
> retain their imitative abilities while in human guise...

Well, I agree they RETAIN it in theory. But they can't use it. VRT stays 
in his prison, not because he CAN'T escape but because he can't imitate 
John V. Marsch and escape. Marsch could not get through those bars and 
so neither can he. Thus Veil's paradox is answered. Veil is only wrong 
in arguing that the abos would cease to exist if they could perfectly 
mimic humans. Humanity sees themselves as gods compared to their 
environment (the Shadow Children say something like that when 
remembering their appropriated human history). But in fact they are 
insignificant.

u+16b9

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