While a number of people have pointed out the various costs and drawbacks of sentience, few if any have taken the next step and wondered out loud if the whole damn thing isn't more trouble than it's worth. Of course it is, people assume; otherwise natural selection would have weeded it out long ago. And they're probably right. I hope they are. "Blindsight" is a thought experiment, a game of "Just suppose" and "What if". Nothing more.On the other hand, the dodos and the Steller sea cows could have used exactly the same argument to prove their own superioirity, a thousand years ago: "if we're so unfit, why haven't we gone extinct?" Why? Because natural selection takes time, and luck plays a role. The biggest boys on the block at any given time aren't necessarily the fittest, or the most efficient, and the game isn't over. The game is never over; there's no finish line this side of heat death. And so, neither can there be any winners. There are only those who haven't yet lost.
Why should I mind?_ She drummed her fingertips against his knee. __ecause you got asked to play baseball, while I got a lecture on circumspection, Jezebels, and leading men into sin?_ __id you really?_ He managed to sound annoyed, fascinated, and amused all at once.__t__ not funny._ __f course it__ not._ He was quick to try and placate her. __ut we can do something about those lectures real quick. All you have to do is marry me.__oyote Bluff had too many secrets that weren__ hers to share. She couldn__ put him in that position. He was a federal marshal. And she__ seen what all the lies her father told had done to her mother. She__ died hating him.The last remnants of her earlier contentment vanished. __ like my independence._ __hen I guess you__l have to get used to the lectures, Sheriff Jezebel,_ he replied.
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Why should I mind?_ She drummed her fingertips against his knee. __ecause you got asked to play baseball, while I got a lecture on circumspection, Jezebels, and leading men into sin?_ __id you really?_ He managed to sound annoyed, fascinated, and amused all at once.__t__ not funny._ __f course it__ not._ He was quick to try and placate her. __ut we can do something about those lectures real quick. All you have to do is marry me.__oyote Bluff had too many secrets that weren__ hers to share. She couldn__ put him in that position. He was a federal marshal. And she__ seen what all the lies her father told had done to her mother. She__ died hating him.The last remnants of her earlier contentment vanished. __ like my independence._ __hen I guess you__l have to get used to the lectures, Sheriff Jezebel,_ he replied.
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