a banana’s perspective on the human experience of timehttps://carcinisation.com/2020/04/13/the-breakdown-of-ignoring/ …
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There's a classic Bruce Sterling story about an alien spacefaring species that only spawns sentience when its immune system is triggered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_(novelette) …
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Replying to @St_Rev @literalbanana
there's another story from decade or two earlier by someone else, I think, that has first human settlers reach a new planet ... but all of their children are retarded and covered w hair. Genetic damage from the trip? Radio Earth - everyone on Earth has it too. >>>
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punchline is that sentience is only the "blow seeds into the wind" stage of species reproduction. Once seed has landed in new ground, revert to standard form for 100k years
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there's also PKD's Golden Man where sentience gets shed as vestigial in favor of foresight, iirc
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foresight and being hot haha
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