The prospect for more such shifts of perspective is quite strong. On the macrocosmic level, there is the issue of the arrow of evolution, of human expansionism, and of the passions inspired by the prospect of leaving the nest and moving into space. The answer offered, the Chi Sequence, is more a metaphor than a hypothesis. It represents all the invisible masters which may reside in the great majority of the human genome still unexplored. And to the degree that it's emblematic of the genetic gifts and burdens which have been passed forward to humanity along the unbroken chain of life, the Chi Sequence can already be said to exist.
Individuals experience their own behavior with less immediacy than they experience their emotions.
Christopher finds himself in the crucible called the human condition, groping toward answers in much the same way we all must. The difference is that Christopher has available to him a class of answers which at present we largely deny ourselves or disdain. His response to that option, and the decisions he makes in the light of it, are a preview of a decision I believe our culture will face, in many forms and arenas, in the coming decades. It's less important to me that the reader agree with Christopher's decisions than that the reader finds the questions worth asking and his answers worth considering. Rather, it's about a place I found to stand, and what I saw from there, and the feelings and thoughts that experience evoked in me.