"Benford G - Furious Gulf" - читать интересную книгу автора (Benford Gregory)

Gregory Benford

The anthology intelligence speaks to others far distributed along the
galactic plane--though the separation into (self, here) and (other, there) is a
convention, a brute simplification for this slowly revolving angularity.
Something like an argument congeals. Sliding perspectives of digital
nuance. Binary oppositions are illusory here--you/I, point/counter--but
they do shape issues, in the way that a frame defines a painting.
It begins. Language lances across the storming masses that intervene, the
vagrant passing weather. Cuts. Penetrates.

Semi-sentients should not preoccupy
us.

They must. They are an unresolved
issue.

You term them "primates"?

Of the class of dreaming vertebrates.

I/You consider them irrelevant.

The underlying issues still vex.

They are nothing! Debris, motes.
They approach. Little time remains

before they will near the Center.

We/You have eradicated humans
virtually everywhere. Only small
bands remain. Our protracted
deliberations, well recorded in history,
demand completion of this ancient
task.

This policy is e>/-*-x< old. We/You
should reinspect it.

They are nearly extinct. Press on.

Their extinction seems difficult to
achieve. They persist. This suggests
we\you reconsider our\my assumptions.

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They are vermin. Carbon-based