No True Scotsman

[icaruslived]

I didn't want to.

I want that on the record: I wasn't even curious. I tried to pass the packet of dark red powder on to Chemical, but there were cancellations and delays and bureaucracy, and eventually, I was simply running out of time and options to figure out why the streets were boiling over.

And it was harmless. That was the one thing the

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[kickthehobbit]

Ugh, this is fantastic! And so creepy.

[icaruslived]

Thank you so much! But... Ugh?

And yea, this is one of the big things that we've been figuring out, with our continual delving too greedily and too deep into neuroscience and psychology, the creepy truth behind how our brains actually work. I find the "free will" implications a lot less interesting than the "personal identity" implications...

...which is why I wrote this, I guess :P

[kickthehobbit]

It's a good ugh! Ugh like, this was powerful and dark and I'm left reeling after having read it, unsure of what to say. :)

Really, it was excellent. I wish the SF I wrote came out more like this.

[icaruslived]

Operating on the principle of read good examples of the thing you want to write I can oh-so-incredibly heartily recommend basically everything Greg Egan has ever written. I consider him our generation's Asimov, and yes, I am aware of how big a claim that is :P

[kickthehobbit]

I'm going on a trip next week...I'll have to see if the local bookstore has anything of his (they specialize in a lot of hard-to-find SF) and pick something up if they do. Thanks for the recommendation! :)