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7/26/2025, 3:39:49 AM
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>you just said, "oh that's just his opinion."
No, the story written by Nasu textually says that this is just his solitary decision, and far from calling it "omniscient", this decision is described as the, this is a textual quote, "no more than the instinctual reflex of a cold-blooded insect". Because this is based on a story where the also unconscious, unfeeling planet decides that life on its carcass must cease, not for any elaborate reason, but solely because it does not reflect its definition of life. The entire thing is portrayed as being basically just a problem of definitions not meeting an arbitrary standard of "correctness", and the ones taking those definitions are portrayed as doing so by unfeeling, crude algorithm. Which, incidentally, is another common theme in Nasu's stories: that having too broad a scope of view just turns you into a machine that can't even be called a sentient being anymore by human standards.
>you just said, "oh that's just his opinion."
No, the story written by Nasu textually says that this is just his solitary decision, and far from calling it "omniscient", this decision is described as the, this is a textual quote, "no more than the instinctual reflex of a cold-blooded insect". Because this is based on a story where the also unconscious, unfeeling planet decides that life on its carcass must cease, not for any elaborate reason, but solely because it does not reflect its definition of life. The entire thing is portrayed as being basically just a problem of definitions not meeting an arbitrary standard of "correctness", and the ones taking those definitions are portrayed as doing so by unfeeling, crude algorithm. Which, incidentally, is another common theme in Nasu's stories: that having too broad a scope of view just turns you into a machine that can't even be called a sentient being anymore by human standards.
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