Thanks for all replies - one issue I would like to focus on:
At one extreme, non-apostate dwarves are just cogs in a machine. If this was the case throughout the machine-fixing project then:
The whole thing would work like a giant brain.
At the other extreme, non-apostate dwarves are more like human technicians, with traces / threats of individualism. In this case:
The whole thing would work like the civil service (a government body - not sure what the non-UK equivalent is).
The fact that the heresies exist at all suggests that the giant brain approach is flawed. A number of replies to my previous post also seem to be suggesting a strong move away from this ideal.
The giant brain, IMO, is much more likely to get the world machine fixed. I shan't say anything about government bodies in case there are employees reading the digest ;-) However, the more you get away from perfection, the more open you are to infiltration, corruption, mis-management, inadecuacy and, ultimately, failure.
richard
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