From: Damien Broderick (thespike@satx.rr.com)
Date: Sun Sep 16 2007 - 13:27:10 MDT
At 12:05 AM 9/16/2007 -0700, Kevin Peterson wrote:
>That story stuck in my head as well, not the implication of
>transcending in the back story, rather for the queen's claim that
>"intelligence is not a survival trait". It wasn't crucial to the
>story, but it is difficult to argue against.
It's displayed impressively in Peter Watts' novel BLINDSIGHT, which
is strongly recommended.
Damien Broderick
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