jim@ISM780B.UUCP (11/03/84)
>Does knowledge of one's slavery make one less a slave?
Why do you keep insisting on getting the sense wrong, Paul?
Since slavery is a concept within thinking minds, not some sort of
absolute physical phenomenon, certainly *lack* of knowledge of one's
slavery makes one less a slave. It is only when we *become aware*
of the restrictions upon us that we come to consider ourselves enslaved.
The omniscient being, of course, must consider itself completely enslaved.
(Although, being omniscient and completely enslaved, it will probably
stop entertaining this or any other concept, cease active cognition,
and simply flow with destiny. Prove that rock over there is not omniscient.
The fact that it refuses to respond to your probes may simply be because it
knows something you don't.)
-- Jim Balter (ima!jim)