Substinative-He She and It

I'll start of by noting I was bothered that Malkah and I were born in the same year.

I think we can add a new lecture to our expanded Vocation series--"Golem as a Vocation." Complete with discussions of types of Golems, a history of Golems including mysticism, oppression, and ghettos, and even a section on the proper self sacrificing ethic for a Golem.

A more important lecture, however, would be a discussion on the morality of life creation (For the purposes of this post the assumption will be made that Yod was,in fact, alive). Who, for example, should have the power to create life, or should this be something reserved for God alone? Was it inherently wrong for Y-S or the Multis to be endowed with this power or can a distinction be made between Aviram having the power and the Multis, or is it simply wrong all togther to create life? There is an interesting folly portrayed in having the Hubris to imitate God(specifically within Aviram), assuming, that one is good enough to take an action almost exclusively reserved for God. Which makes an interesting parallel to the Christian ideal of imitating and striving to become like God. Finally, the dystopiate state of the planet in the novel begs the question, was God even all that right to create humanity, given what we have done.

Finally, because this is Sci Fi, and because the potential creation of cybernetic organisms, human like AI, and such is a very real possibility it's worth discussing how humanity must handle itself as it moves closer to this ability. What sort of responsibility lies within the ability to act as God.