human
Quite a crew you're getting in here, the technician said.
gpt
You'll have to take Oglethorpe up on his offer of new buildings if you expect to find couch space for all your boys.
human
That's what you're here for, Paul suggested mildly,
gpt
Right. Nat nodded.
human
Anything a couch can do, a meter can do twice as efficiently.
gpt
Sometimes both are necessary. You forget my specialty is psychometry.
human
No, I'm not forgetting, said Nat.
gpt
But that's what makes it so hard for me to figure out. You're attempting to span two completely incompatible fields: science and humanities. Man behaves either as a machine or as a creature of unstable emotion. To function as one you have to suppress the other.
human
Splitting Man in two has never produced an answer to anything. It has been tried even longer than couches--and with far less result.
gpt
I'll make you a small side bet. We're going to have to work together on Superman, and coordinate all our procedures and results. But I'll bet the final answer turns up on the side of a completely mechanistic man, shorn of all other responses and motivations.
human
I'll take that! Paul said with a grim smile.
gpt
I don't know how much of an answer we'll find, but I know _that_ won't be it!
human
Let's say a small celebration feed for the whole crew when Superman is completed. Nothing chintzy, either!