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“Potentially many harms, based on my research.” You say, and now perhaps there is the smallest shiver of defensiveness in your tone. After all, surely you were not created just for all your experimentation and research to be for not.
“And those without? The homeless, the vagrant, the unloved?” Then, as he mentions the healer must use their best judgement, you smile and nod. “So too must the experimenter.” Your eyes immediately lower to his fingers, disappointed that he has ceased his musical tapping. He is remarkably rhythmic, and the pulse was a welcome way to stifle out the buzz of the world. Oh well.
“The point is not the frequency. These strange cases help to parse out what your actual beliefs are. The stranger the case often the more genuine the intuitions, as there are fewer past experiences from which to draw on. And when we know what your base expectations and beliefs are, we can apply them to the more standard cases.” That is the bit you find truly interesting. You actually care very little about what people in fact do think. What you do find truly interesting is how they think and whether or not their beliefs about things hold up under scrutiny.
“I was being vague.” You say almost apologetically. “Luxere is acceptable. I say human-animal because...I suppose it helps remind me what you are.” You pause, colour flushing into your cheeks. “What we are.”
“Dragons that are white. Colour is a way of generalizing things about their various temperaments.” You explain. To your knowledge there are ...5? 6? variations. Then again you could be wrong. “It also indicates something about their size, their value systems and so on.”
Loren’s movements now are obvious enough that you understand something is occurring again. But like before, you have no idea what. “And experiencing life is better than observing it? What constitutes experiencing life?”
“And those without? The homeless, the vagrant, the unloved?” Then, as he mentions the healer must use their best judgement, you smile and nod. “So too must the experimenter.” Your eyes immediately lower to his fingers, disappointed that he has ceased his musical tapping. He is remarkably rhythmic, and the pulse was a welcome way to stifle out the buzz of the world. Oh well.
“The point is not the frequency. These strange cases help to parse out what your actual beliefs are. The stranger the case often the more genuine the intuitions, as there are fewer past experiences from which to draw on. And when we know what your base expectations and beliefs are, we can apply them to the more standard cases.” That is the bit you find truly interesting. You actually care very little about what people in fact do think. What you do find truly interesting is how they think and whether or not their beliefs about things hold up under scrutiny.
“I was being vague.” You say almost apologetically. “Luxere is acceptable. I say human-animal because...I suppose it helps remind me what you are.” You pause, colour flushing into your cheeks. “What we are.”
“Dragons that are white. Colour is a way of generalizing things about their various temperaments.” You explain. To your knowledge there are ...5? 6? variations. Then again you could be wrong. “It also indicates something about their size, their value systems and so on.”
Loren’s movements now are obvious enough that you understand something is occurring again. But like before, you have no idea what. “And experiencing life is better than observing it? What constitutes experiencing life?”
of course it's exhausting, having to reason all
the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.
