| Nadya: |
Is fossilization caused by excessive information? |
| Gus: |
Well, too much knowledge can be stifling if it isn't integrated well. |
| Tim: |
In some ways information is like food: we need time to digest it. |
| Bill: |
Perhaps that's how many old people feel: there is already so much information in their skulls that they feel surfeit. Little additional information can be assimilated. |
| Nadya: |
Ah, the entanglements of minutia! Can we ever escape it? |
| Liao: |
transcendence is possible. However, I cannot explain how . . . |
