- You placed it in the ANIMAL section of the encyclopedia.
- This immediately "activated" the ANIMALtemplate, which
transferred some information to the ZYGOON entry, such as:
"zygoons cannot be made, they are born of other zygoons"; "if you
cut a zygoon in two it will probably die"; "zygoons need to feed in
order to survive"; etc.
This process is summed up in the diagram on page 58.
The new information (left hand box) activates old information
(right hand box) to produce a new entry in the encyclopedia (bottom
box). This is not limited to the animal domain. Consider this: [59]
[THRICKLER CHART]Thricklersare expensive, but cabinetmakers need them to work wood.
You already knew that telephones cannot grow or eat or sleep, nor
can screwdrivers or motorbikes. Now you will assume that thricklers
cannot grow or eat or sleep either, which is summarized with the dia-
gram above.
WHATSUPERNATURAL CONCEPTS ARELIKE