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"I operate by a code that makes me responsible for what I do, makes me definitely, directly, genuinely responsible. I am precisely the kind of person I made myself out to be."
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Compare to the idea of a group ego described by Robert Heinlein in Methuselah's Children.
Also, I swear there was a Star Trek story that was titled BEM or something like that. It was about a planet in which different organisms could combine to make larger, more complex ones. The mechanism by which this was accomplished was some sort of chemical that permitted and encouraged this behavior. The effect ran amuck, creating a monster that was hundreds of feet high, thousands of individual creatures.
The vast Star Trek universe does contain Pandronians, who are described as composite life-forms; probably described in the 1970's or 1980's.
Thanks to Yossi (@ExoThinker) for pointing this one out. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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