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, 22:08, 18 April 2008New page: Image:lighterstill.jpg <center>Image:Helianx19.jpg</center> ---- <center>'''Commentary'''</center> Since their computers had been so vital in developing a plan to leave...
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<center>'''Commentary'''</center>
Since their [[computer]]s had been so vital in developing a plan to leave Womb Planet, the Helianx once again found themselves having to rely on their bioplasmic associates
to discover a way out of their new dilemma.
Their altruistic impulse to spread the news of the impending reversal of the [[space/time continuum]]
to all the species they met in their journeys also had the advantage of giving
the computers enough time to consider the problem in depth.
They all knew that it was not going to be easy.
To even consider the [[idea]] that the the very ground of their being
might reverse its expanding momentum and collapse in on itself,
was terrifying enough to think about in practical terms.
This was certainly the view of many of the species the Helianx had tried to warn,
and who consequently found it all too easy to dismiss the prediction as a whimsical [[fantasy]];
and far too far in the [[future]] for much concern, even if it might be true.
The Helianx, however, took the [[information]] a great deal more seriously.
After all, their computers had already solved one seemingly imponderable situation
and the Helianx could only [[hope]] that they were up to puzzling out this one, too.
What at first appeared to preoccupy the computers as they examined the unimaginable event that lay ahead,
was what they had been discovering about the [[nature]] and structure of [[matter]] itself.
Whereas the [[science|scientists]] of many of the [[race]]s of that [[time]]
held that matter was inherently lifeless,
the Helianx computers were starting to look at the growing possibility
that somewhere at the heart of matter--buried perhaps within the very smallest
of the [[particles]]--lay an [[intelligence]] of an entirely different order.
For the Helianx this had been hard to confront, since if matter did indeed possess an
innate intelligence, then presumably there had to have been some form of [[intention|intentionality]]
behind the stellar [[nova]] that had destroyed their planet.
As a consequence, they did their best to resist this notion for a long time.
It had been just as difficult for them to view the calamitous event as entirely [[arbitrary]], as a [[cosmic]] accident in a dangerous and [[impersonal]] [[superuniverse]], since Womb Planet had always been so placidly well-ordered.
Everything had been in its correct place in their underwater [[paradise]] and had always seemed so.
It had been perfection; its primal purity preserved
by countless generations of Helianx convinced of their good [[fortune]];
a complacency that had only become more firmly reinforced after they had seen
the tumultuous [[physical]] challenges faced by the intelligent species
on most of the worlds they had observed [[astral]]ly. From the security of their waterworld,
it had never once occurred to the Helianx that some [[cosmic]] [[intelligence]]
beyond their understanding might have some [[future]] plans for them.
Having finally come to terms with the [[emotion]]al impact of their collective trauma,
the last thing the Helianx wanted to believe was that there was some sort of hyperphysical entity, who clearly seemed to have a rather poor opinion of them.
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Helianx_Proposition/page_18 Previous Page]
[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]
<center>[[Image:Helianx19.jpg]]</center>
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<center>'''Commentary'''</center>
Since their [[computer]]s had been so vital in developing a plan to leave Womb Planet, the Helianx once again found themselves having to rely on their bioplasmic associates
to discover a way out of their new dilemma.
Their altruistic impulse to spread the news of the impending reversal of the [[space/time continuum]]
to all the species they met in their journeys also had the advantage of giving
the computers enough time to consider the problem in depth.
They all knew that it was not going to be easy.
To even consider the [[idea]] that the the very ground of their being
might reverse its expanding momentum and collapse in on itself,
was terrifying enough to think about in practical terms.
This was certainly the view of many of the species the Helianx had tried to warn,
and who consequently found it all too easy to dismiss the prediction as a whimsical [[fantasy]];
and far too far in the [[future]] for much concern, even if it might be true.
The Helianx, however, took the [[information]] a great deal more seriously.
After all, their computers had already solved one seemingly imponderable situation
and the Helianx could only [[hope]] that they were up to puzzling out this one, too.
What at first appeared to preoccupy the computers as they examined the unimaginable event that lay ahead,
was what they had been discovering about the [[nature]] and structure of [[matter]] itself.
Whereas the [[science|scientists]] of many of the [[race]]s of that [[time]]
held that matter was inherently lifeless,
the Helianx computers were starting to look at the growing possibility
that somewhere at the heart of matter--buried perhaps within the very smallest
of the [[particles]]--lay an [[intelligence]] of an entirely different order.
For the Helianx this had been hard to confront, since if matter did indeed possess an
innate intelligence, then presumably there had to have been some form of [[intention|intentionality]]
behind the stellar [[nova]] that had destroyed their planet.
As a consequence, they did their best to resist this notion for a long time.
It had been just as difficult for them to view the calamitous event as entirely [[arbitrary]], as a [[cosmic]] accident in a dangerous and [[impersonal]] [[superuniverse]], since Womb Planet had always been so placidly well-ordered.
Everything had been in its correct place in their underwater [[paradise]] and had always seemed so.
It had been perfection; its primal purity preserved
by countless generations of Helianx convinced of their good [[fortune]];
a complacency that had only become more firmly reinforced after they had seen
the tumultuous [[physical]] challenges faced by the intelligent species
on most of the worlds they had observed [[astral]]ly. From the security of their waterworld,
it had never once occurred to the Helianx that some [[cosmic]] [[intelligence]]
beyond their understanding might have some [[future]] plans for them.
Having finally come to terms with the [[emotion]]al impact of their collective trauma,
the last thing the Helianx wanted to believe was that there was some sort of hyperphysical entity, who clearly seemed to have a rather poor opinion of them.
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Helianx_Proposition/page_18 Previous Page]
[[Category: The Helianx Proposition]]
