Comments on: What I Did At Gencon – and What I’m Doing at Fan Expo! http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2009/08/26/what-i-did-at-gencon-and-what-im-doing-at-fan-expo/ Killing Someone Else's Darlings Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:06:55 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Huth http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2009/08/26/what-i-did-at-gencon-and-what-im-doing-at-fan-expo/comment-page-1/#comment-285 Huth Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:23:12 +0000 http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/?p=395#comment-285 <i>The primary issue is the nonexistence of real risk or tension in characters that simply cannot have involuntary experiences in any way, shape or form.</i> They can always just edit out the idea of voluntarity from their minds anyway, though. Don't wan't to know what you're missing? You don't have to! On the other hand, I think the lack existential agency over your experiences in each moment once noncontinuity of selfhood removes the basis for nonvoluntary identifying personally with consciousnesses down the line will redefine the problem... The primary issue is the nonexistence of real risk or tension in characters that simply cannot have involuntary experiences in any way, shape or form.

They can always just edit out the idea of voluntarity from their minds anyway, though. Don’t wan’t to know what you’re missing? You don’t have to!

On the other hand, I think the lack existential agency over your experiences in each moment once noncontinuity of selfhood removes the basis for nonvoluntary identifying personally with consciousnesses down the line will redefine the problem…

]]> By: JDCorley http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2009/08/26/what-i-did-at-gencon-and-what-im-doing-at-fan-expo/comment-page-1/#comment-284 JDCorley Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:20:22 +0000 http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/?p=395#comment-284 It's a good thing I read all the way through this post rather than springing to comment because my exact comment would have been "The primary issue is the nonexistence of real risk or tension in characters that simply cannot have involuntary experiences in any way, shape or form." It’s a good thing I read all the way through this post rather than springing to comment because my exact comment would have been “The primary issue is the nonexistence of real risk or tension in characters that simply cannot have involuntary experiences in any way, shape or form.”

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