[extropy-chat] Arthur Schopenhauer

[Damien Broderick]

At 09:21 AM 4/27/2007 -0400, gts wrote:

> > The World as Will and Idea is a notion dynamically embodied in Alfred
> > Bester's great baroque sf  novel THE STARS MY DESTINATION (aka TIGER!
> > TIGER!), fw that's w. And his flawed protagonist Gully Foyle is one of
> > the first powerful representations of an augmented human.
>
>Do you recall in what way The World as Will and Idea is
>embodied in the novel?

Yes.

If you've read it, you'll know why; if you haven't, it wouldn't help 
to have it laboriously spelled out at second hand.

Damien Broderick