Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
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".
17
111
Once again I looked into the observation cube, and wondered about that unknown man, or what had been a man, through whose eyes I now looked.
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".
Once again I looked into the observation cube, and wondered about that unknown man, or what had been a man, through whose eyes I now looked.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )