Burrell - seriously trying to rationalize it? You mean as in "this is a good thing". Or "this is route we should go". Because that is new to me. I've run into as extended premises for stories - but always as pretty horrible (0r in some cases comically horrific) stories.
Bunnies frighten me.
Anya ,'Help'
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Typo Boy - May 12, 2003 11:51:40 pm PDT #4701 of 9843
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Noumenon - May 13, 2003 4:04:17 am PDT #4702 of 9843
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Hey, Jim, maybe you ought to add a link to the Zmayhem FAQ in your Press post, because that did its job really well, I thought. No one should miss it.
Theodosia - May 13, 2003 6:12:31 am PDT #4703 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
One thing I like about Futurama is that it follows up on a bunch of really SFnal tropes like "heads in jars" and all that.
Cindy - May 13, 2003 6:49:57 am PDT #4704 of 9843
Nobody
All the head in a jar talk is hard to swallow with coffee. But in a weird (and bizarre and horrifying)way it sounds like the ultimate in asceticism. I wouldn't know how it reads or plays, because I don't think I could read or watch such a story. Despite my body image demons, I'm still glad I have one. But still...
§ ita § - May 13, 2003 7:29:55 am PDT #4705 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't see anything male about the head in a jar thing ... it's about sentience, about consciousness, isn't it? Integration/differentiation, that stuff. I've not read any happy stories about it, but as a bit of conjecture it strikes me as no weirder than many, and no less "deserving" of print space.
sarameg - May 13, 2003 7:35:20 am PDT #4706 of 9843
All the head in a jar talk is hard to swallow with coffee.
It would be really hard to swallow coffee if your head was in ajar?
(sorry, that's all I've got. I think the coffee hasn't hit the brain yet.)
Jim - May 13, 2003 7:37:20 am PDT #4707 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
It's an expression of Cartesian duality - it turns up in Beckett's trilogy as the last stage of Malloy/Mallone/Worm's descent.
§ ita § - May 13, 2003 7:38:58 am PDT #4708 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sara, you can have the head in coffee.
All caffeine, all the time.
Jim -- I knew there was a fancy term sitting out there waiting for me to learn.
Am-Chau Yarkona - May 13, 2003 7:40:36 am PDT #4709 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
It would be really hard to swallow coffee if your head was in ajar?
Unless the jar was filled with coffee, in which case you'd quickly get over caffinated. And you wouldn't be able to see anything. And someone might try to drink you, unless they were also a head in a jar, which would make it difficult, and... when it got cold, it would be kind of icky.
Jim - May 13, 2003 7:49:43 am PDT #4710 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
;)
But no, it goes back as far as that - basically, if all we can be really sure of is the fact of our own consciousnesses, then how do we know we aren't rains in jars? Descartes frigged it by invoking God as a sort of external certainty. I go with the "so what?" theory - OK, so this whole world is an illusion and I'm a brain ina jar. That doesn't mean that my experience is going to go away, so i might as well live as if t'were real.