Slough Of Despair
09-26-2010, 02:23 PM
I was kinda thinking. If Eywa is really as intelligent as postulated - IQ multiple times that of Einstein or anyone else who's ever lived.
When the first avatars connected their queues to Pandoran flora or fauna, that would give them a link to Eywa, even if they didn't know it. If they linked with the flora (for example at the tree of voices or tree of souls) it would give them a direct line into Eywa, but even if they linked with an animal or with another Na'vi who later linked with Eywa, and then linked with the avatar again after that, there'd be some communication there by proxy, in batch, as it were.
What I'm thinking here is, does that door swing both ways? It seems very likely that it could. If an avatar connects with Eywa, that gives Eywa a back door straight into their human brains. Maybe if they knew the reality of Eywa they could put some kind of "firewall" into the link system between an avatar and its driver, to try and keep Eywa out of their human brains, but they don't know the reality of Eywa, so it's moot.
If Eywa is as mind boggingly intelligent as is hinted, it's possible she/it could take a look in and a scoot round an avatar driver's human brain without them even realising. She coud also while doing that get a look at their scientific knowledge, historical knowledge and life history. It's possible even as intelligent as Eywa is that she may not have had a good understanding of cosmology and astrophysics, but after examining an avatar driver's mind she would have acquired this knowledge. She'd know what and where earth was, and know the sorry state it was in and how it got that way.
She might also begin to formulate a plan to deal with the prospect of the same thing being done to Pandora as was done to earth.
Being so intelligent, she might be able to literally insert "trojan" thoughts, memories or impulses into the subconcious of the avatar driver's minds, without them realising.
For example, let's say one of the scientists had an identical twin brother who was a marine and would be more useful in getting the Na'vi set up to fight RDA... Eywa, knowing from examining the minds of the humans she had access to, how the company would react if anything were to happen to him, might try to do something to that end. Like planting, say, a subconcious impulse to make him do something stupid the next time he was on earth, like walking into a ghetto or trailer park flaunting his money in front of the local street thugs. The rest is history...
Just a stream of thoughts that came to me. It might be nothing or I might be extrapolating Eywa too far, but there it is.
When the first avatars connected their queues to Pandoran flora or fauna, that would give them a link to Eywa, even if they didn't know it. If they linked with the flora (for example at the tree of voices or tree of souls) it would give them a direct line into Eywa, but even if they linked with an animal or with another Na'vi who later linked with Eywa, and then linked with the avatar again after that, there'd be some communication there by proxy, in batch, as it were.
What I'm thinking here is, does that door swing both ways? It seems very likely that it could. If an avatar connects with Eywa, that gives Eywa a back door straight into their human brains. Maybe if they knew the reality of Eywa they could put some kind of "firewall" into the link system between an avatar and its driver, to try and keep Eywa out of their human brains, but they don't know the reality of Eywa, so it's moot.
If Eywa is as mind boggingly intelligent as is hinted, it's possible she/it could take a look in and a scoot round an avatar driver's human brain without them even realising. She coud also while doing that get a look at their scientific knowledge, historical knowledge and life history. It's possible even as intelligent as Eywa is that she may not have had a good understanding of cosmology and astrophysics, but after examining an avatar driver's mind she would have acquired this knowledge. She'd know what and where earth was, and know the sorry state it was in and how it got that way.
She might also begin to formulate a plan to deal with the prospect of the same thing being done to Pandora as was done to earth.
Being so intelligent, she might be able to literally insert "trojan" thoughts, memories or impulses into the subconcious of the avatar driver's minds, without them realising.
For example, let's say one of the scientists had an identical twin brother who was a marine and would be more useful in getting the Na'vi set up to fight RDA... Eywa, knowing from examining the minds of the humans she had access to, how the company would react if anything were to happen to him, might try to do something to that end. Like planting, say, a subconcious impulse to make him do something stupid the next time he was on earth, like walking into a ghetto or trailer park flaunting his money in front of the local street thugs. The rest is history...
Just a stream of thoughts that came to me. It might be nothing or I might be extrapolating Eywa too far, but there it is.