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From: "Dr. Leon Harmond" <harmond@norwoodfunk.com>
Subject: Re: Explanation
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Hello again B,

I am sorry that it takes me such a long time to check my e-mail. I'm not always around the lab, and I can only check my e-mail when I am at the lab.

You do ask some interesting questions. I find it difficult to talk about my relationship with Dr. Socak, as she tends to work against our efforts here at the lab more than she works for them. I have forwarded your message, and asked a friend here to address your interest in her theories.

As for your theories of a lost connection with our species' hallucinatory nature, I am at a loss as to how to answer that. There is evidence that certain ancient cultures valued the expressions of individuals who "saw visions", more so than our contemporary society. Whether these individuals' skills were valued because of their evolutionary portent, or a longing to return to a lost state is perhaps impossible to guess.

I find it hard to argue against evolution. An argument that the economy of hallucinatory communication was a skill lost for lack of need strikes me as perhaps anti-evolutionary. I can think of no reason that individuals would find their survival threatened by the ability to communicate through hallucination. It seems to me that it is always secrecy and hidden motives that lead to the greatest conflicts between humans, and thus the most deaths. Thus, I would argue that humanity is evolving into a time of purely thought based communication rather than returning to a time of thought based communication. I am of course open to considering all arguments to the contrary.

Sincerely,

Dr. Harmond