Status Updates From Diaspora

"The success of Kozuch's model could be due to the fact that it was just an extremely good metaphor, most of the time, for some deeper physical process which was actually as different from extradimensional wormholes as a spring was different from an asteroid" - I assume that here we're discussing non-fictional physics too.

"We've all chosen to stay on Earth, we've chosen to remain organic...but we're still drifting apart - probably faster than any of you in the polises." - evolution is a much consequence of a changing enviroment as it is of genetic change.

"The orphan had learnt to call the fourth citizen 'I' or 'me' rather 'Yatima', but that was just grammar, not selfawareness." - pretty sure self awareness precedes the first person singular, is Egan trying to say something about the development of citizens differing from that of fleshers?