Amila Pesco

• Dr. Amila Pesco, scientist (technology)

Beliefs:

• Anthropocentric
• Reductionist – a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts
• Elitist: Some parts are more important than others: Distribution based on merit, ability, or value.
• Nature is hostile and needs to be controlled/subjugated
• No afterlife/Atheist / There’s no inherent meaning to life/Nihilist
• Egoist, believes in competition, dominance, personal gain
• Any means necessary to secure human survival
• Existential angst, fear of death, depression/anxiety, loss of purpose,

aimlessness. She senses that something is wrong with how she lives life.

What philosophical/emotional change do the characters go through?

Amila Pesco is a die hard scientist, trained in the scientific academy to consider the Mabou a necessary workforce for humans. There is a sense in her that something about this practice is wrong but her beliefs, instilled in her by her elitist upbringing, prevent her from exploring this moral inkling. The Mabou she had extracted so far were dogmatic in their spiritual beliefs without ever having presented valid and logical explanations for the big questions let alone prove that there was that omnipresent consciousness. Due to the extraction technology, she is already used to the fact that there are different dimensions, but that doesn’t prove any more than that. Feeñ teaches her that there are other ways of knowing which brings her closer to that inkling she feels but ultimately, she sends Feeñ to work and doesn’t want her views to be challenged which leaves her in her state of existential fear, depression and aimlessness, a state of mind she’d been in all her life except when she was a child.![[Character+Map+v2_Amila_Pesco.pdf]]