Post B #4

Dear Orson Scott Card,

I don't know how you have created such a society in your mind, but it is very impressive. This Children of the Mind cult is quite interesting. I believe that it is a vast improvement over the current Catholic orders, mainly because you are allowed to be married but are still expected to remain celibate. This is totally new for me since it seems that the modern day orders are very prudish, and although this one would be too, it emphasizes love and devotion for your fellow human being. If there existed such a thing today, I would donate to it because that is really awesome.

Also, the relationship that you have created between Ender and Jane is very interesting. It must be hard for a computer capable of such immense thought to have a relationship with a mere human, only it is the human that has trouble revealing himself wholly to the computer. Although Ender is not fully devoted and trusting of Jane, he nonetheless loves her as much as a computer program can be loved, and if Jane had returned to him after his overemotional moment with the missionaries, I'm sure that Ender would have continued to love her. Humans and robots will, once robots are advanced enough to think for themselves, doubtlessly have trouble relating to each other since they are, to an extent, different species. Robots such as Jane would have the advantage of studying humans and adapting their character, and by the looks of it, Jane is totally incapable of hate. She experienced jealousy though for a moment and that could eventually lead to hate. Anyways, in the way that you have created it Mr. Card, Jane would be the perfect friend and, if robots ever become that advanced, would be the ideal robot to control all.