Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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93
"I don't understand," I said.
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94
"What you know—even a creature such as yourself—" said Misk, "depends on the charges and microstates of your neural tissue, and, customarily, you obtain these charges and microstates in the process of registering and assimilating sensory stimuli from your environment, as for example when you directly experience something, or perhaps as when you are given information by others or you peruse a scent-tape.
15
95
This device you see then is merely a contrivance for producing these charges and microstates without the necessity for the time-consuming external stimulation".
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96
My torch lifted, I regarded with awe the inert body of the young priest-king on the stone table.
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97
I watched the tiny flashes of light, the rapid, efficient placement of the disks and their almost immediate withdrawal.
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98
The instrumentation and the paneling of the room seemed to loom about me.
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I considered the impulses that must be transmitted by those eight wires into the body of the creature that lay before us.
"I don't understand," I said.
"What you know—even a creature such as yourself—" said Misk, "depends on the charges and microstates of your neural tissue, and, customarily, you obtain these charges and microstates in the process of registering and assimilating sensory stimuli from your environment, as for example when you directly experience something, or perhaps as when you are given information by others or you peruse a scent-tape.
This device you see then is merely a contrivance for producing these charges and microstates without the necessity for the time-consuming external stimulation".
My torch lifted, I regarded with awe the inert body of the young priest-king on the stone table.
I watched the tiny flashes of light, the rapid, efficient placement of the disks and their almost immediate withdrawal.
The instrumentation and the paneling of the room seemed to loom about me.
I considered the impulses that must be transmitted by those eight wires into the body of the creature that lay before us.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )