Week 13: The Evolving Self-Aware Human

The following is from "Models of Open Relationships" by Kathy Labriola




"Having a sexual relationship with someone else often leads to becoming emotionally involved and even falling in love, frequently causing a crisis in the primary relationship, possibly leading to a breakup."

Week 12: Man is the Animal that Laughs

She has a surprise for him, a gift only she could imagine he would cherish. As they spent the last two months apart, the love they had for each other was now the invisible rope that connected them the 3,000 miles apart. On the day they reconnected, they spent every waking moment together. At breakfast they sat hand in hand, on the walk to the park he walked closest to the street while keeping her close, and at night there was an unbelievable sense of passion they shared while in bed.

 The long weekend was finally over, they had to say their good byes and reconnect that invisible love rope. But before he walked onto that airplane, he was surprised by her gift... the gift she knew only he would love. The teddy bear was with him the entire plane ride home, they fell asleep together... he imagined it was his love he just left.

 On nights he was most lonesome, the bear was all he had to keep him company, the bear was the only love he felt from his girl friend, and before he knew it the bear was returning the hug.

“The bears alive!” he thought at first, it startled him until he rethought what was happening. The bear was a symbol of his girl friend’s love and as he cherished the bear, he was not only instilling his own love into this inanimate object, but feeling the love his distant girl friend wanted him to be aware of.

To this day he still has the bear and although it does not come alive when he holds it, he still knows that the love inside it is stronger than ever.

Week 11: If Robots Are Slaves, Can Logic Be Freedom?

The following quote comes from Who Can Replace A Man.

"On the third day in the Badlands, the servicer's rear wheels dropped into a crevice caused by erosion. It was unable to pull itself out. The bulldozer pushed from behind, but succeeded merely in buckling the servicer's back axle. The rest of the party moved on. Slowly the cries of the servicerdied away."

Week10: The Stranger Is Programmed

Quote from "Stranger in a Strange Land"


"HMMPH! You're trying to force on him you narrow-minded, middle class, Bible Belt morality."

Week 9: The Stranger Learns The Signs

Quote from "Strangers in a Strange Land."


"Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get any results either."

Week 8: The Alien as Other

The follow quote comes form Donald Johanson's "from Lucy."

"As a paleoanthropologist-one who studies the fossils of human ancestors-I am superstitious. Many of us are,because the work we do depends a great deal on luck."

Week 7: Planetary Disaster

The following quote was taken from "SF Signal: Interview Dr. Michio Kaku.

"English is rapidly emerging as the most likely candidate for a planetary language."