From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 18:49:09 MST
Maybe you are not "the one" :-)
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> "M. E. Smith" wrote:
> >
> > The continued emphasis on the "two pills
> > scene" on this list has moved me to point
> > out something that will only make sense to
> > people knowledgable about Joseph Campbell's
> > ideas about mythology and what he called
> > the "monomyth": the "two pills scene" is
> > a classic "threshold of the adventure"
> > scene. The decision Neo is presented with
> > in the scene was whether or not to refuse
> > the "call to adventure".
>
> Yeah, but that's not realistic. I'm trying to save the world and *I*
> never got a "threshold of the adventure" scene.
> --
> sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
> http://pobox.com/~sentience/beyond.html
> Member, Extropy Institute
> Senior Associate, Foresight Institute
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