Re: Maybe thinking meat is a good idea

Bill Snyder wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 19:53:34 GMT, Gene <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Joseph Nebus) wrote in
>> news:nebusj.1210093101@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>>      Are there stories in which a mature virtual population, folks
>>> who have had the time to consider and reflect and get used to life
>>> this way, come to the decision that it's better (by whatever
>>> standard) to live as a complicated biochemical process within a
>>> physical body?  And do they act on it?
>>
>> Yep. There's an obscure author named Late Heinlein, whom some
>> people maintain is a myth, but who really did exist and wrote
>> Time Enough for Love and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls.
>
> Although AFAIK the author****p of _Cat_ is undisputed (among those
> who acknowledge the existence of LH), there are those who maintain
> that ****tions of _TEfL_ were in fact ghosted by his distant
> cousin, Middle Heinlein.

Only in the sense that the Middle Ages are sometimes confused with The
Dark 
Ages.

Anyway, there's no question about the section under discussion, which is 
about a computer that wants a body so that she can have *** with a really,

really old man.