Sequel to Not Just Human (Anaima — 2)
“Dr. McCoy, this has nothing to do with intimacy.
This is simply something that happens when two entities interact under strong positive affect due to the possibility of dramatic phase space expansion.
They may relinquish their conventional social facades and allow their imperfectly-bounded Jagged Edges to interact directly in a high-risk/high-reward context.
Under sufficient friction, this often results in a seminal event derived from but not reducible to their prior history.
This can form the basis of a new entity whose corpus is composed of the shared experiences of their progenitors.
You see? Not at all like sex.”
This is easily the funniest f*ing thing I’ve ever helped create. What’s crazy is that it might also be the most consequential.
—Dr. Ernie
