[extropy-chat] thank evolution for the interstate highway system

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 2 17:00:53 UTC 2003


--- Don Dartfield <twodeel at jornada.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> 
> > misuse of the term 'parallax'
> 
> I'm also not sure where you got this.  Parallax is the apparent shift
> when you view something from two different positions, right?  I
> took his use of the term "Neanderthal parallax" to refer to the
> different way of looking at things that his main characters were
> exposed to when seeing things from the viewpoint of the Neanderthal
> society.  Seems like a perfectly valid use of the term to me.

He seemed to me to be using it as a term to describe parallel
universes. It is a bit of a stretch though I suppose not out of the
realm of artistic license.

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Mike Lorrey
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