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jeph does your inability to control your story disturb you?

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Trollstormur:
I'm no stranger to the idea that an inanimate object, even one that is only an idea or an electrical interface with an idea could be given personhood, even unconscious will as an aggregate of individuals' input. Here we see a story leading an author despite his intentions, but lacking any brain or body, is the story merely too restrictive, leading exploration within the medium, or simply the human author's inability to properly empathize with an 'unsentient person' leading him back to humanity?

I'm reminded of a story of unsentient alien intelligence, a race of star-going people from a science fiction novel that were by all outward indications a sentient peoples, possessing language and trade, and even fought wars and made peace diplomatically, whichever suited their ends better; but for the all their similarities, their 'society' was a veil, concealing the face of a culture that arose not out of conscious thought but through trial-and-error natural selection, and individuality and self-recognition were completely missing.

I'm also reminded of a corporation.

bicostp:
I imagine it would be more like this after a while.

Is it cold in here?:
The story is a reification of facets of the author's humanity, over which control would be an illusion and a fallacy.

akronnick:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 10 Apr 2011, 18:46 ---The story is a reification of facets of the author's humanity, over which control would be an illusion and a fallacy.

--- End quote ---

Pretty much sums up the entire notion of free will itself.

jwhouk:
Joel's Law.

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