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

evolution brings only low skills. They
still communicate with each other
linearly!

Some would say that evolution works
as equally upon you\us as upon them.

Nonsense. We \ You direct our
changes. They cannot. This is the deep
deficiency of chemical life.

They were once able to alter their own
imprintings. To write changes in their
carbon kind.

They lost it as we\you diminished
them. Now they are the same as the
unthinking forms, the animals--shaped
by random forces.

They were once important players
here. We\You should understand their
threat to us before expunging them.

Possibly they harbor information
harmful to us\you--so say our most
stable records.

Those are sheltered against the Mass
Eater's radiant storm and so should be
well preserved.

By its nature we\you cannot know
what this hidden information is.

Why "by its nature"?

There are many theories.

Precisely. Does it not seem curious
that something in our\your makeup
makes it somehow impossible for
us\you to know what these humans
carry? That such knowledge is

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Gregory Benford

blocked for us? A curious aspect of our