Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 104 | Later we will allow him to rest, and he will see and hear and think again for himself". |
| 17 | 105 | The thought of Parp crossed my mind. |
| 17 | 106 | Once again I looked into the observation cube. |
| 17 | 107 | I wondered of the man through whose eyes I was now seeing, who he was, what he had been, that unknown Implanted One who now walked some lonely road somewhere on Gor, a device of priest-kings. |
| 17 | 108 | "Surely," I said bitterly, "with all the knowledge and power of priest-kings you could build something mechanical, a robot, which might resemble a man and do this work for you". |
| 17 | 109 | "Of course," said Sarm, "but such an instrument, if it were to be a genuinely satisfactory substitute for an Implanted One, would have to be extremely complex—consider provisions for the self-repair of damaged tissue alone—and thus, in the end, would itself have to approximate a humanoid organism. |
| 17 | 110 | Accordingly with humans themselves so plentiful the construction of such a device would be nothing but an irrational misuse of our resources". |
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Later we will allow him to rest, and he will see and hear and think again for himself".
The thought of Parp crossed my mind.
Once again I looked into the observation cube.
I wondered of the man through whose eyes I was now seeing, who he was, what he had been, that unknown Implanted One who now walked some lonely road somewhere on Gor, a device of priest-kings.
"Surely," I said bitterly, "with all the knowledge and power of priest-kings you could build something mechanical, a robot, which might resemble a man and do this work for you".
"Of course," said Sarm, "but such an instrument, if it were to be a genuinely satisfactory substitute for an Implanted One, would have to be extremely complex—consider provisions for the self-repair of damaged tissue alone—and thus, in the end, would itself have to approximate a humanoid organism.
Accordingly with humans themselves so plentiful the construction of such a device would be nothing but an irrational misuse of our resources".
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )