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WCDT Strips 3236 - 3240 (6-10 June 2016)
QuestionableIntentions:
I think Jeff might have read Blindsight.
I too believe that general intelligence and concioussnes belong together.
WareWolf:
--- Quote from: QuestionableIntentions on 10 Jun 2016, 04:45 ---I think Jeff might have read Blindsight.
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I was just going to bring that book up. Highly recommended. It's absolutely chilling.
(The one by Peter Watts, I mean. Blindsight by Karin Slaughter is also excellent, but it's a whole different genre).
Zebediah:
I once wrote a story that was told partially from the viewpoint of an intelligent but non-self-aware being. It was an interesting challenge. Basically the intelligence observed and evaluated events without any concern for how those events affected it, because it had no conscious identity to be affected. Not sure how effectively I pulled it off, but it was fun to try to think that way.
JimC:
I haven't noticed human consciousness creating much empathy with the suffering of the beings we simulate either, be it the mass slaughter of the shootemups or the 'natural' disasters of Simcity and the like.
cesium133:
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