The World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt

The World of Null-A by A.E. van Vogt
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Non-Aristotelian logic, refers to the capacity for, and practice of, using intuitive, inductive reasoning (compare fuzzy logic), rather than reflexive, or conditioned, deductive reasoning – in contrast to Aristotelian logic which is usually characterized by deductive logic and an analytic inductive method in the study of natural philosophy and metaphysics.

Fear must derive from the very colloids of a substance. A flower closing its petal for the night was showing feat of the dark, but it had no nervous system to transmit the impulse and no thalamus to receive and translate the electric message into an emotion. A human being was a physico-chemical structure whose awareness of life was derived from an intricate nervous system. After death, the body disintegrated; the personality survived as a series of distorted impulse-memories in other people’s nervous systems. As the years flew by, those memories would grow dimmer. At most, Gilbert Gosseyn would survive as a nerve impulse in other human beings for half a century; as an emulsion on a film negative for several score years; as an electronic pattern in a series of cathode-ray cells for perhaps two centuries. None of the potentialities diminished even fractionally the flow of perspiration form his body in that hot, almost airless room.

Shall start the sequel (The Players of Null-A) to see if things get a little obfuscated.

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