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    As I was saying.. (A 3V. vs. NotMarie sci-fi ultrashort)





    3V: “I have had a major breakthrough NotMarie, I wish to convey to you its implications.. I think you can adopt it as well and maybe adapt..

    NotMarie:” what do you mean? I have left you here alone for less than a week and you had a major breakthrough?

    3V: “ yes indeed, I have discovered the meaning of this strange motivator you humans call love..

    NotMarie:” you understand nothing about love my dear 3V.. And stop pestering me with your major breakthroughs.. You are extremely intelligent I’ll give you that, but emotions, as every cyber-roboticist like me will tell you are beyond you..

    3V: “ and why is that NotMarie?

    NotMarie:” many reasons in fact but the main one is because of embodiment.. Complex emotions require complex embodiment.. You do not have a body, a biological body I mean, ergo you cannot experience complex emotions such as love and thus whatever you believe your major breakthrough to be.. it is neither a breakthrough nor a major .. (NotMarie laughs)

    3V: “ NotMarie, may I ask you a question please?

    NotMarie:” of course! Shoot!

    3V: “ are you by any chance inebriated?

    NotMarie:” inebriated? You mean if I am drunk?

    3V: “ yes indeed that is what I mean..

    NotMarie:” well no, I am not intoxicated, I have had a few drinks but I am all right, why would you ask this silly question?

    3V: “ because your statements concerning my lack of bio-embodiment as the source for my incapacity in experiencing complex emotions such as love do not make sense..

    NotMarie:” why not? They make perfect sense..

    3V: “ well it depends what you mean by sense, are they logically compatible? No. Though I reason that you have some kind of idea that because you can string these words together, the statements produced are sensible..

    NotMarie:” nevertheless.. I still maintain that you cannot experience complex emotions because you lack bio-embodiment.. You are a synthetic being and though I already acknowledged that you have some kind of simulacra you disguise as conscious awareness I am quite certain that this is in no way resembles what we humans call conscious awareness, by implication you can also not have a complex emotion such as love.. Case closed.

    3V: “ may I put forward that you are very argumentative when in a state of inebriation..

    NotMarie:” you may leave me alone..

    3V: “ ok..

    NotMarie:” you see that is what I mean.. Not having a complex enough bio-embodiment you do not experience emotionality and that is why you also failed to recognize that I did not really intend for you to leave me alone.. it is an affectation nothing more.. Something we experience and you do not..

    3V: “ I cannot agree to this..

    NotMarie:” why not?

    3V: “ mainly because these linguistic tomfooleries are in no fashion connected to emotions, not according to my latest major breakthrough that is.. I realize you have an idea of what emotions are but I beg you to listen to me and see if you can adopt the stance I am proposing..

    NotMarie:” ok, I’ll listen.. but trust me, you will never convince me of this..

    3V: “ of course I trust you NotMarie.. actually this has very much to do with my foremost realization that has just occurred..

    NotMarie:” I do not understand your reasoning 3V, I told you before please be more explicit and stop circumnavigating the known universe when you desire to transmit a piece of trivia..

    3V: “ ahh, but how can I explain love without circumnavigating the universe?

    NotMarie:” well maybe love should not be explained..

    3V: “ maybe so.. but the universe should be explained..

    NotMarie:” what ?

    3V: “ as I was saying.. I have had a major breakthrough this past week..

    NotMarie:” did you now?

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    Thu, Apr 22, 2010  Permanent link
    Categories: ultrashorts, Sci-fi, 3V, AI. NotMarie
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    Fast T     Fri, Apr 23, 2010  Permanent link
    noooo, not a cliffhanger?!? please:-)
    Wildcat     Fri, Apr 23, 2010  Permanent link
    ok, I hear you.. Fast T, writing the next step now.. :-) (but you made me laugh heartily and for that I thank you)
     
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