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"Or wet." You point out, though you don't know what sort of ecosystem would be necessary to support such an electric type of lifeform.
Walking towards where the light is starting to ebb from the creature, you tilt your head. "An interesting problem. Is it the case that once the light ends, the monsters can get through? But...if it is a matter of degrees, how are we to know where the cut off is actually 0? Do the creatures have some honed sense for that?"
It reminds you of the paradox of the heap, where removing one grain of sand presumably makes a huge pile, still a heap. Though by that logic, eventually 1 grain is still a heap. The problem is in defining a cut off point for something that varies by degrees.
"One small step, and it's still light. How about here?" You take another, still clearly in the light. "And here?" So you go a few steps until it isn't entirely clear anymore if you're in complete darkness yet, or not.
Walking towards where the light is starting to ebb from the creature, you tilt your head. "An interesting problem. Is it the case that once the light ends, the monsters can get through? But...if it is a matter of degrees, how are we to know where the cut off is actually 0? Do the creatures have some honed sense for that?"
It reminds you of the paradox of the heap, where removing one grain of sand presumably makes a huge pile, still a heap. Though by that logic, eventually 1 grain is still a heap. The problem is in defining a cut off point for something that varies by degrees.
"One small step, and it's still light. How about here?" You take another, still clearly in the light. "And here?" So you go a few steps until it isn't entirely clear anymore if you're in complete darkness yet, or not.
