Today’s mess: Reconstituted protein (RCA Block 11), CarboGel Type-1, kale (massaged).
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@prikow, so I’ve been thinking, it’s kind of weird that the Record contains no reference to different classes of lifeforms at all.
What do you mean?
Like, when humans started communicating with each other over information networks, one of the first things we did was send each other pictures of our pets.
I’m just saying, if _humans_ chucked an interstellar computing device around an alien sun, we’d probably include a few cat pics.
Do the Perceived have a cat analogue? Or maybe their cat equivalent are also Perceived? Did they even live on planets?
Hmm, hey @zalmux, what can you tell us about the Perceived? Did they live on planets? Have pets? Families?
I do not know. The Record does not reference its creators except to imply their existence.
Nothing? A bajillion parameters describing how to manipulate space and time and nothing about themselves? Not even a pointer to a homeworld?
There is nothing.
Weird. Every human culture we know of wrote about themselves. Even something as plain as a dictionary is thick with references to history and mythology.
Perhaps vanity is a uniquely human trait.
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