Hello - bigsoldier here - bigsoldier once sat with Dr. Sagan at BosCon (Boston Science Fiction Convention) and Dr. Sagan said that he had read two of bigsoldier's Mative American sci-fi stories. And he said, "I appreciate that the original natives of this continent know it far better than any European ever could. But your regard for Champ or Bigfoot or even your own Kiowan tribal belief in the Rivermen does not mean that such entities exist. For after all, are we not just random assemblages directed by the accidental paths of chemicals and compounds and byproducts so that our interpretations are just as random?" Whereupon, bigsoldier asked, "But Dr. Sagan, if that really were true, how is it that we could be having this conversation right this very minute?" And Dr. Sagan had no answer...
bigsoldier once sat with Dr. Sagan at BosCon (Boston Science Fiction Convention) and Dr. Sagan said that he had read two of bigsoldier's Mative American sci-fi stories. And he said, "I appreciate that the original natives of this continent know it far better than any European ever could. But your regard for Champ or Bigfoot or even your own Kiowan tribal belief in the Rivermen does not mean that such entities exist. For after all, are we not just random assemblages directed by the accidental paths of chemicals and compounds and byproducts so that our interpretations are just as random?" Whereupon, bigsoldier asked, "But Dr. Sagan, if that really were true, how is it that we could be having this conversation right this very minute?" And Dr. Sagan had no answer...