![]() ![]() Later, while attending the Clarion writing workshop, I showed it to Spider Robinson, who was convinced I should send it out again. I submitted "Understand" to various magazines but received only form-letter rejection slips, so I put it away. I also thought about how the differences between human cognition and animal cognition are greater than any test can measure, and I began to wonder what might characterize superhuman cognition. But what would it be like, my roommate wondered, to find meaning and order in everything you saw? To me that suggested a kind of heightened perception, which in turn suggested superintelligence. The initial impulse to write "Understand" arose from an offhand remark made by my roommate in college he was reading Sartre's Nausea at the time, whose protagonist finds only meaninglessness in everything he sees. Understand a novelette by Ted Chiang -Ted Chiang writes.
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