Jag tror att jag kanske har saknat något, men som anställde den privata utredaren Nick Stavrianos (genom att kalla honom i sin dröm) för att hitta Laura Andrews i den här novellen?
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It isn't stated in the book. The implication, however, is that the events that took place retroactively came into existence by the combined influence of all the smeared consciousnesses, human or otherwise.
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"What do you mean?"
"The entire planet, the smeared human race--"
"But they weren't... they still aren't. Not the whole planet, even now--"
"No--but if they will be, or might be, don't you think they could choose their past? You know what one smeared human can do--dont you thinkan amalgam of twelve billion would be able to tunnel its way into existence, by whatever means that would take?"
...
"It found a way to happen, and you were part of it, that's all."
"I see."
So my "liberation" from the loyalty mod, from Karen, is more of a joke than ever. I am who I am only because I served as a conduit for this apocalypse, a fault line through which the future smeared humanity could force itself into being.
karantän . s. 275
Om du har läst Egans Nödvändighet , finns det ett liknande begrepp:
Existence retroactively becomes real from the point of discovery of the Theory of Everything.
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