10-30-2010, 01:37 PM | #121 | |
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I like to categorize my musings into gritty realism, low fantasy, and over the top everything goes world hopping adventure. I suppose large but unusually sociable spiders works for the realism. Now I'm trying to figure out how to make a low fantasy spider-like PC race. |
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10-30-2010, 01:38 PM | #122 |
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10-30-2010, 01:41 PM | #123 | |
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But we are drifting...If you'd like a discussion of worldviews, I suggest a new thread in genchat. |
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10-30-2010, 01:46 PM | #124 | |
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The genre may demand more or less attention to scientific details, after all. |
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10-30-2010, 01:46 PM | #125 | |
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Thus, science may never give an answer to "What is Love?", but it can (and probably will) answer the questions "What neurological processes correspond to the feeling of Love? Can we predict the circumstances where these will occur? Can we reliably create those circumstances?". To the extent that people find the empirical questions more useful or relevant in their lives than the metaphysical ones, this represents a form of "creeping scientism". TeV |
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10-30-2010, 01:58 PM | #127 | |
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We should start a new thread, methinks. if you wish to discuss our respective worldviews. That sort of thread isn't likely to reach any kind of consensus, of course. :) |
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