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Subject: Re: Re: The Library! -- Possible Future - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 00:25:59 EST
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uokvax!andree    Dec  6 11:52:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.sf-lovers / wu1!rf /  5:22 am  Dec  2, 1983 */
It may be that, at some level, *thinking* is a process which
itself is limited.  Even if not, wise sentients might not wish
to construct sentients who could outthink them.  So perhaps the
Galactics never got about a millenium ahead of us.


				Randolph Fritz
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This brings up a possibility raised in other stories. The
contention is that by reaching some specific level of civilization,
the traits selected for are changed - in such a way that the
thinking abilities (dare I say intelligence) stops going up.
Given this hypothesis, the Galactics CAN'T be more than about
a millenium ahead of us. Of course, writing about a race that
is actually far ahead of us in mental abilities is an interesting
challange in and of itself.

	<mike