Undine's nature

Jeff Wilson · 19 Oct 2011, 17:11 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:11:53 -0500
Subject: (urth) Undine's nature
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On Wed, October 19, 2011 11:38, David Stockhoff wrote:
> On 10/19/2011 12:31 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>> On Wed, October 19, 2011 08:40, David Stockhoff wrote:
>>> It occurs to me that creatures who enter the ecosystems of alien
>>> planets, especially as "beans," would do well to make use of the DNA of
>>> native plants and animals to survive and to compete with them. This
>>> would explain the apparent mixed human-nonhuman geno/phenotype as well
>>> as fitting the chaotic, cancer-like growth of the monsters.
>> Don't forget the Pythagorean notion that beans are vessels for
>> transmigration, and possibly reincarnation.
> Good point, but how would that apply here?

The "beans" may engender the resurrection or at least the cloning and
memory copy of specific individuals, rather than being generic monster
seeds. This would make Scylla's threat just a pretext, the beans were
meant to be sown all along by the creatures who produced them, in order to
reproduce their consciousness.

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Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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