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"they are made out of meat" I dont understand what they want to tell.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

I don't either.  Perhaps it is colloquial for 'they are flesh and blood', as in all men are mortal.  Or are we talking about Big Macs?  Do you have any context?

Fenerbahçeli · Answer

It's title of a story. This is an example in the story.

"They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"Meat. They're made out of meat."

"Meat?"

"There's no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They're completely meat."

"That's impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?"

"They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don't come from them. The signals come from machines."

MrPedantic · Answer

I seem to have seen this story elsewhere. Are the speakers machines? I believe they come across humans ('carbon units'?) and can't believe that such sophisticated beings can consist of 'meat', i.e. as MrM says, 'flesh and blood'. Machines naturally despise flesh and blood.

Things are 'made out of meat' when the meat is fashioned into a shape.

An artist might make a model of the Eiffel Tower out of meat.

MrP

Guest · Answer

Yuk!! Sounds like a funny book. What's it called?

MrPedantic · Answer

Try here, Guest:

http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html

Think I saw it in a book by Steven Pinker called 'How the Mind Works'.

(The chapter on Memory was good. Or was it Decision-Making? One of the two.)

MrP

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