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Originally Posted by Solace
Now I'm not saying that the Hideauz are like that. But appearances can be deceiving, is my point. There is something more to them than meets the eye, otherwise the moral conflict of the story would have no meaningful impact in the end. The question is what does Ledo do with this knowledge? Nothing? Something?
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Well that's in fact one of the strangest point of this series that leaves me a bit confused and skeptical.
It think that it's quite clear that while the Hideauze and the whalesquids are similar they are however still different for many reasons. Chamber found a strong genetic similarity but for all we know there could be the same genetic disparity that exists between humans and gorillas.
In the first place why would some Evolvers be left behind? What if the whalesquids are descendents of "failed" experiments? That would make more sense to me.
At any rate thinking that you can judge the Hideauze by their terrestrial counterparts is a very big assumption. Of course there is enough evidence to conclude that the whalesquids abandoned civilization entirely. Perhaps they still retain some degree of intelligence, but the facts speak clearly, they aren't modifying nor tending their environment in the least.
However how can Chamber be so sure that the same is true for the Hideauze? He knows practically nothing about them. We can tell because he himself stated that the alliance has no data about "Hideauze larvae", and that discovering that was "valuable information". So in other words he doesn't know anything about how is the Hideauze life and society inside one of their nests.
The reason we are now taking for almost certain that the Hideauze have abandoned civilization and intellect, is because Chamber said so in a very important speech, and it makes us think that, regardless of the rationality of such conclusions, it must be true because that sounds like a direct message from the authors.
However logically it shouldn't be. In the first place those flower things do not look anything like the regular squid Hideauze. So if there are different races, there might be some that still retain intelligence.
It would be really very hard to explain how could the Hideauze evolve so much just through natural selection. There is simply no comparison between technology and evolution when it comes to rate of improvement over time. To be on par with that the Hideauze should be able to breed faster than bacteria and viruses, and that's absolutely unrealistic.
It would only make sense if the Hideauze are still evolving through
artificial evolution, just like they did in the first place. But there can't be
artificial evolution without intelligence. Bio-engineering might be different from mechanic and electronic but it's
still a technology. And if bio-engineering is still applied in the Hideauze society then Chamber's logic falls apart.
In that case the "blossom sail" would be a crystallization of the Hideauze's civilization as much as machine calibers and dimenstriums are a crystallization of the GA's civilization.
So right now I don't quite know what to think. It really seems that the show is meant to make us think about these two different "survival strategies" as Chamber explained them. So perhaps Chamber is right, but I don't think that's very credible in realistic terms.
Or maybe that's just another trick of the authors and it will then be revealed that the Hideauze can still talk and comprehend human language (not quite believing that right now), but then I'd still find strange that the rational Chamber made such hasty conclusions with so little evidence.
