Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - June 2015
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: Wildroses on 11 Jun 2015, 03:49 ---spaceborn
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Please note, spaceborn and spaceborne are quite different things, although probably both accurate in this case.
Patternsix:
Alice is a Sentient Machine or as I loving refer to as a Synthetic Consciousness "SC". Kinda like how a Diamond and a man made Diamond are still the same thing only one was created by good old fashion Nature the other Humans.
I really hope this is the Direction it is going! I really hope Jeph is going to really get into how Humanity will do one of two things when a real SC is born into this world.
Either we do what Humanity has done for generations and one we seemly take pride in doing, oppression and slavery thing we have almost perfected over the years. This includes but is not limited to, Sex Slaves, 24/7 Labor, Entertainment, Fight's to the death, replacement for lost loved ones, bodyguards, and so-on. Also the idea that we would intentionally cripple their minds so they actually love being these things without question, in other words we take away what some people think "God" gave us, "Freewill" just image the fucked up life you would live if you were forced to believe you actually liked Reality TV and industrial processed food.
Or we embrace them and treat them as equals and together with them we overcome every last Human frailty such as War, Money, Death, and the big one Finally knowing we are no longer alone in the Universe by basically creating a lifeform that helps enhance our own understanding of existence.
That being said I think is Jeph is going down this road it'll be #1 the good old fashion Human superiority to anything that ain't them!
Thrudd:
Going back to the earlier part of the argument where analogies with trees and sap were used, maybe they were not analogies after all? :psyduck:
Could it be that the Alice that we have seen up to now is an avatar of the local Praeses?
The Praeses being sentient trees equivalent to the cedars of the Sierras.
Those trees being pretty much all one plant and therefore possibly older than the Bristle-cones themselves.
- This thought came to me as I remembered a specific science fiction short story based on that premise.
- The space version may have been inspired by the trees from Tench Muyo.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 11 Jun 2015, 08:52 ---- The space version may have been inspired by the trees from Tench Muyo.
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About 30 years ago, the BBC showed a one-off sci-fi short/nature documentary where future humans have been miniaturised to about the size of harvest mice and are living in a gigantic space station that turns out to be a huge genetically-engineered intelligent tree.
The spaceship that they used to visit past Earth turned out to be a genetically-engineered cucumber! :laugh:
Neko_Ali:
You see, this is what people are warning about GMOs! Today it's larger tomatoes! Tomorrow it's space trees and cucumber ships!
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