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Because even if she were able to leave the Station—alive—still, it’s only humans that can land on Earth, and humans are defined by their papers.
“No, let’s talk about it, let’s talk about that. What if I asked you to?” “To get married? That’s nonsense, Harey. I don’t need anyone but you.” She leaned over me. I felt her breath on my mouth; she took hold of me so firmly that for a brief second the overpowering drowsiness I was feeling was dispelled. “Say it a different way.” “I love you.”
“Lord… she… but she’ll come back…” “No.” “What do you mean, no?” “No, Kelvin. You remember the rising foam? Since that time they haven’t come back any more.” “They haven’t?” “No.” “You killed her,” I said quietly. “Yes. Would you not have done so? In my place?” I jumped to my feet and set off walking faster and faster. From the wall to the corner and back again. Nine paces. Turn. Nine paces.
The psychologist was defeated by the scientists.
“The point is, Sartorius will try and conceal certain facts. I’m almost certain of it.” “And you won’t?” “No. Not any more. This isn’t just about us. It’s about—you know what it’s about. It demonstrated rational activity. A capacity for organic synthesis of the highest order, something quite unknown to us.
by not dragging kris in
“No. Not in the slightest. It could simply have taken a procedure that didn’t consist of words. As a fixed memory trace it’s a protein structure. Like the head of a spermatozoon, or an ovum. After all, in the brain there aren’t any words, feelings, the recollection of a person is an image written in the language of nucleic acids on megamolecular asynchronous crystals. So it took what was most clearly etched in us, most locked away, fullest, most deeply imprinted, you know? But it had no need whatsoever to know what the thing was to us, what meaning it held. Just as if we were able to create a
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what if the clones are just performing sequences from a series of memories, like that of gen-AIs…
if solaris wants to understand about human, it does not need language (why would we think that it will speak human tongue?)
