[ExI] "meat"

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:06 PM 5/24/2009 -0400, Harvey wrote:

>Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat"

The story reinforces my point. It's a parody of contemporary 
provincialism, the "computers can't possible be conscious" brigade. 
That is, the machines (or whatever they are) in the story are 
expressing their own narrow, contemptuous incredulity by using the 
word "meat." (Incidentally, the whole joke is a sleight of hand, 
because such inorganic beings wouldn't *use* the word "meat," at 
least not in that way.)

I had an entertaining meal with Terry Bisson once. We both ate meat.

Damien Broderick