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  Re: Regarding Star Trek IV: A Very Brief Cultural History of Whale Song

  great response, thanks! i

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  Nathanael Bassett University of Illinois at Chicago

  Sunday, January 15, 2017 — 5:22 pm

  great response, thanks! i think you're right that non-mammals/invertebrates are really what people are thinking about, and that is a pretty neat explanation. ...
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  Re: The Matter of Concern: Replicator as Logistical Utopia

  material/informational duality

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  Nathanael Bassett University of Illinois at Chicago

  Thursday, January 12, 2017 — 6:15 pm

  These are great questions and help to illustrate the importance of logistics and transportation in imperial/colonialist systems (something I'd read a little about in post-colonialist history but hadn't thought about at all with regards to Star T ...
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  Re: Homo-Sapiens Only? Known Unknowns and Other Minds Beyond the Human

  Borgs etc

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  Nathanael Bassett University of Illinois at Chicago

  Saturday, January 14, 2017 — 9:20 pm

  Hi John, Thanks for the reply! It's interesting to compare the attitudes about technology that the federation and the Borg both represent. The instrumentalist view of the federation seems argues that technology is controlled by people. The Borg are a ...
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  Re: Regarding Star Trek IV: A Very Brief Cultural History of Whale Song

  Whales

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  Nathanael Bassett University of Illinois at Chicago

  Saturday, January 14, 2017 — 9:27 pm

  Hi Jon, thanks for the post! I always enjoyed Spock's line here about "only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man." Recently I've been reading Other Minds, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, which talks about the fuzzy ar ...