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Reply Subj: Not much gambling left with the world destroyed. Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 at 08:30:36 pm EST (Viewed 406 times) | |||||||
Quote: I've now split it again because I have an opportunity to maybe make part of it tie in if I get the timing right. The whole story is in fragments anyway, may as well take advantage of it.If the story fits then great; but don't bend the narrative to somebody else's paths. Better to tell a complete story that is its own thing. Quote: The tie-in part of it would be a few characters who weren't otherwise in the spotlight but know something weird is going on. And one of them suffers a minor side effects because of it.By the time we get to chapter eight, the whole Parodyverse is facing major side effects. There is a progressive cascade of consequences. Quote: This time that wasn't the point! It was that my first thought was Dr. Lia is somewhere thinking "I told you so" to the entire robotics industry. She's one of those people who had crazy ideas that were not generally accepted, and she feels vindicated after being treated like a loon in the field."They said I was mad! Mad!" Quote: Of course that doesn't at all help the robots who lost their souls because of it.Quote: Quote: Of course, souls are presumably not dependent on software or harware any more than they are on brain patterns and organic punctions.Quote: I'm sure they each have one; but if the reason why is found for sentient robots, and Anna and Nena don't match their design at all, it does raise questions about whether the former theory is correct, and how the two of them can have souls.Since we have no way to prove that humans have souls - or even a test for human self-awareness - it is problematic to demonstrate such things for A.I.s also. It's a bit easier in a fictional fantasy world like the Parodyverse, where demons barter for souls or monsters devour them, but even then it gets a bit difficult to prove something like that in court. Quote: Quote: The problem comes from an actual change in the way the Parodyverse works, not any internal flaw in the machinery or software. It's like saying "the Law of Thermodynamics has changed and now we can't light fires". Different, better, or more flints won't make a difference. The universe just doesn't support it anymore.Quote: I may have been reading too much into it from the software design perspective. Often software (and firmware) can be designed to ignore a certain amount of errors and continue.Ironically, the more "human" the robot has been made or has become, the more likely the "rules" changes will impact on them. But this gets described a bit more in chapter 8 too. Quote: Since all the sentient robots didn't drop at once - only the ones who realized the error - I thought that sort of error correction can work, at least temporarily. Eventually too many errors would be hit. or a different kind, and it would fall apart again.The current early index patients are really the canaries in the coal mine. | |||||||
