<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael M. Butler</b> <<a href="mailto:mmbutler@gmail.com">mmbutler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Harry Palmer is not Elron, not by a long chalk.</blockquote><div><br>Of course, he does not have the Vilya ring. If one takes steps back from all of this (xyzzyCo) one can wonder whether their might be some unique combination of human traits (a leader?) [1] or discovered compu-bio-synthetics (hopefully implantable) that will eventually lead us to true "self-actualization" (for lack of a better term) Of course this gets all messed up by the copies one has pursuing different future vectors and the problem of reintegration of self-derivatives. Tolkien did not anticipate this or chose to ignore it.
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. And for the readers, I am not anticipating this happening. The unique combination of memes that would have to be manifested in a single human could indeed be labeled as a "miracle".<br>
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