@mttaggart my brain just keeps going back to Roche’s biochemical pathway map (it’s that big map of biochemical pathways). Essentially a map of all the chemical interactions in the human body and how they relate to each other (the ones that we know about). It’s big. And it’s complicated. Each component is relatively simple, but altogether it’s a giant mess. Just like the human body.
And I know only a portion of it is related to cognition and emotion. We haven’t created that. We haven’t even come close. We haven’t simulated it. We haven’t made a simulacrum of it. And we shouldn’t be trying. We can’t even get humanity right.

@mttaggart “We made it long to deter people from reading it” —them probably

@socketwench we don’t talk about Requiem