Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahutb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!ahuta!ahutb!leeper From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.leeper) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: re: re: Loose Ends (BRAINSTORM) Message-ID: <509@ahutb.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 11:09:07 EST Article-I.D.: ahutb.509 Posted: Sat Mar 2 11:09:07 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 07:29:34 EST References: <804@topaz.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 23 REFERENCES: <804@topaz.ARPA> > What's to explain? It was meant only to be a throwaway --- a gag > pulled on the one guy by the other. There was no intent on > developing it as a concept; the story moved off in another direction > totally. Now, I agree that it's a fascinating idea that deserves a > full treatment of it's own, but it really had no relevance to the > story in BRAINSTORM, except very superficially. > > --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) I also think that it matters. The problem is that the BRAINSTORM idea is so rich in implications. Even a long novel would leave most of the implications untouched. When technology can raise man to be a totally empathetic creature, completely understanding the thoughts of another, the nature of all human relationships the invention touches will change. The at-death-experience is one of the least interesting implications they could follow. (Still for the idea and the ideas the film does have, I like the film a lot.) Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper