Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - November 2016
pwhodges:
We have no idea how quickly Sedna will heal to a level that will enable her to be an effective fighter again.
Verteiron:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Nov 2016, 20:43 ---An enhancement that leaves someone uninjured after having a pipe bent around his head is Clarkean technology.
Mr. Church must be made of something other than protein.
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Human brain in an entirely synthetic body?
They could also be a human intelligence transferred or uploaded to a synthetic brain/body. Either could be considered entirely distinct from AI.
Alice also says that there are no thinking machines in the orbiting colonies, and no signs of the controlling AIs on the ground. Even if we assume Alice doesn't lie, neither statement entirely rules out the possibility of Alice's "kin" being AIs.
I'm leaning toward human intelligences in artificial bodies, though.
brasca:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 24 Nov 2016, 14:00 ---I could easily be wrong about it, but I don't think Mr. Church is a robot/AI. A few clues:
* Mr. Pate said that Alice recognized Church "as one of [her] kind"
* Even in Pate's town they don't seem to have electricity. That is, no means of recharging his batteries.
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Those buildings we see in the background are partially submerged in the water so Pate's city may have electricity, but there was no need to wire something derelict.
JimC:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Nov 2016, 20:43 ---An enhancement that leaves someone uninjured after having a pipe bent around his head is Clarkean technology. Mr. Church must be made of something other than protein.
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As is Alice' ability to survive what looks like a well over 100ft fall from the wind turbine right at the beginning. Seems to me that both are in a vaguely similar order.
Incidentally Alice' wind turbine doesn't seem to make any sense to me as anything other than an electrical power generator, and judging by its size its perhaps megawatt level output - an awful lot of power to run a small cottage.
BenRG:
I suspect that the wind turbine was intended to supply the Town. The pump at the well suggests that she has slowly been reintroducing technology at a rate at which she is confident that won't 'unbalance' the local society.
Possibly the whole 'witch' and 'magic' thing was intended to keep the ordinary folk from wanting to learn about these vicious complexities for themselves and thus maintain their socio-economic innocence.
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