Hmmmmmmmm They say when you are in greateast pain and sorrow you see the one you truely love appear to your minds eye to help you try and remain sain..........Does this mean that TD LOVES Ada alot mroe than she lets on ...and more than just as a team partner........
Given the amount of mystery inherent in the affairs of android consciousness, one might consider the historical imbalance between the living and the dead.*
There must be a tremendous lack of opportunity to 'reincarnate', as it were. So who's to say that androids are not actual Souls... Like hummingbirds feeding on nectar from artificial flowers.
*(In light of the cataclysmic Armageddon described in the first pages of this Story.)
very good points - I sadly cant comfim or deny any of the points - but ill just say that some of these matters will be explored. in the next 5 pages :D
What is it to be Human? What is it to be alive? How do we quantify Life?
Intelligence, awareness of self and surroundsings, and Consciousness.....
Now Androids and AI's meet two of these three......the third...is harder to quantify than others.. What scares and excites many is what happenes if an Artificial Life and inteligence...were to -meet- that last criteria even to a small degree....
What does that make them then?
The real danger with people jsut saying Well they are a thing a machine is....it becomes a excuse to ignore a fact that when We create 1000s of beings each one unique yet we treat them as disposable....It becomes a excuse to deny the truth of what they are....A race of beings being used as slaves by another.
I am not saying that is what happens under Centcomm. Just saying this concept is likely why most peopel are scared of Technology and AI's because in human history....Slaves invariably rise up violently and brutally against their oppessors.....
And unlike human slaves....Artificial life would not be bound by morals and compassion ....they would be led by cold uncareing logic....and that alone scares people to death.....
one thing that seperates the "Andriods" from "mechanical life" is the fact they do have emotions. and awareness.. at one time they were "slaves" as time went on things changed. its highly debatable "what" the AI's are, they are not affected by being deactivated or reactivated other than lack of memory. however , they too have awareness, and sense of self. emotions? those too. so whos to say whats more .. or less human.
Agreed. THough many people will stand by teh WHole Soul...and lack there of in a manchine. But AS a wise man once said. How do we know -what- a soul is exactly.... Only thatwe know we have one...... Who is to said an android and AI do not have them as well.
PS. Personally Centcomm I hope the future of Humanity and Artificial life -is- More liek the world of yours. Both livign together peacefully and -not- trying to eliminate each other out of Fear...or Logic.
Well There is that ONE nutcase There is always ONE. ut I meant In Your city Centy. And rose's area. that Self appoitned lunatic well he'll be dead soon so.
Are you casting the current action as being only inside TeeDee's perceptions, or is she tapping into a 'wider shared consciousness'? After all, Ada is still in the scanner at this point.
The layouts on this page are extremely good. I like the background flames and then the light at the bottom. Conveys the emotion and intensity without a single word of text or even an in-panel image... just from background.
from where she laid it down...
Yonder comes an Angel
to bring it all around!
Or: Time to go back in the kitchen!
I think we are traveling on the borders of Soul Country right about now.
There must be a tremendous lack of opportunity to 'reincarnate', as it were. So who's to say that androids are not actual Souls... Like hummingbirds feeding on nectar from artificial flowers.
*(In light of the cataclysmic Armageddon described in the first pages of this Story.)
*(An illustration.)
But that last panel is so epic. :)
'Cuz I think we all know how bad that actually is (you monster). ;p
( and yes im very mean to my charcters :D insert evil laugh...)
Intelligence, awareness of self and surroundsings, and Consciousness.....
Now Androids and AI's meet two of these three......the third...is harder to quantify than others.. What scares and excites many is what happenes if an Artificial Life and inteligence...were to -meet- that last criteria even to a small degree....
What does that make them then?
The real danger with people jsut saying Well they are a thing a machine is....it becomes a excuse to ignore a fact that when We create 1000s of beings each one unique yet we treat them as disposable....It becomes a excuse to deny the truth of what they are....A race of beings being used as slaves by another.
I am not saying that is what happens under Centcomm. Just saying this concept is likely why most peopel are scared of Technology and AI's because in human history....Slaves invariably rise up violently and brutally against their oppessors.....
And unlike human slaves....Artificial life would not be bound by morals and compassion ....they would be led by cold uncareing logic....and that alone scares people to death.....
PS. Personally Centcomm I hope the future of Humanity and Artificial life -is- More liek the world of yours. Both livign together peacefully and -not- trying to eliminate each other out of Fear...or Logic.
*(Or deeper.)
(I reiterate my comment of 10:40 AM Today's Date.)