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Subj: Someone has to.
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 11:32:41 pm EDT (Viewed 380 times)
Reply Subj: Lia makes some pretty big statements there.
Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 at 08:06:21 am EDT (Viewed 412 times)



> Geoff Ryman has a good tale about a similar situation, told from the perspective of a robot nanny.  I think it was called <i>Warmth</i>.  Worth a look if you can find it.

Noted.

  
> > “But the brain is almost the same,”  she said, just as they guessed.  “Did you know, with this sort of...consciousness...I learned the hard way that you can never turn them off?  If you do, it creates the same kind of fear and paranoia as a human who’s been in a coma.  They wonder how it happened, what they missed, where all the time has gone.”
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> That's worth a shiver.

Especially if you're Anna.

 
> > “They will learn quickly, after only very few minor accidents.”  Anna predicted.
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> Spoken like a true android!

She has a few perspective issues still.