Fillet Sr.’s Reviews > A Psalm for the Wild-Built > Status Update

Mosscap watched them keenly, not moving at all. “Is it bad?” the robot asked.
“No,” Dex lied.
HAHAHA

“[…] and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I—we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”

“Are you afraid of that?” they asked. “Of death?”
“Of course,” Mosscap said. “All conscious things are. Why else do snakes bite? Why do birds fly away? But that’s part of the lesson too, I think. It’s very odd, isn’t it? The thing every being fears most is the only thing that’s for certain? It seems almost cruel, to have that so…”
“So baked in?”
“Yes.”

Abandoning immortality to obey the laws of nature is kinda awesome

ts so fun after heavy study

“I am made of metal and numbers; you are made of water and genes. But we are each something more than that. And we can’t define what that something more is simply by our raw components.” Dammmm

“ “Would you want everybody else’s thoughts in your head? Would you want even one other person’s thoughts in your head?”
👀👀👀 pascal and joy both (foils according to TvT?)