NotMarie: “You trivialize me!”
3V: “How do you mean?”
NotMarie: “in our previous conversation you said that your reality package is different than mine in that I consider origination as valid, and you do not..”
3V: “yes I did, however I fail to understand, in what fashion does that trivializes you?”
NotMarie: “well, I...
If two parties can not agree to the following five principles of debate, then the debate is unlikely to reach a correct and reasonable conclusion. Even with these principles in place, a debate may be unsolvable, as evidenced by apparent paradoxes in the perfectly logical and rigorous framework of mathematics.
1 : Both parties must be open to...
#Marie is not called Marie anymore, she is now called NotMarie.
And so goes the conversation
3V: “I represent another reality, similar, yet packaged differently;
I am packaged in a fashion that allows me to disregard my origins”
NotMarie: ” another? Relating to which reality”
3V: “yours”
NotMarie:
“Ok, and in what...
There is no reason, that with today's level of technology and resources, the whole world can't have the essentials of food, water, shelter, education and health care.
There is abundance of energy that can be converted into automation. There is abundance of human resources capable of advancing science and technology to help us, if they only...
What if we learn to read human brains down to the most intricate details?
What if we learn to record, in detail, every action that occurs within the brain, every synapse firing, every cell interaction, every memory?
What if if all of this data could then be stored on a computer and used to re-engineer a new, identical brain?
What if...
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In your high-school science classes you almost certainly learned Hooke’s law, relating a...
In the future, we may decide that a virtual existence, a life inside a fully immersive computer game where our every desire is fulfilled, is a more appealing option than the real world we currently inhabit. Many people have presented the idea that we are already in such a virtual reality, but I don’t believe this is possible. This is because...
Marie’s meditation ended with a bang, she slowly and carefully extracted herself from her cyber-autopoietic self-dissolution, realizing that an observer somehow disturbed her alignment with the infoflow.
That observer, of course, was I.
I did not mean to interrupt but it appeared that my newly updated SentSap ™ fluid intelligence...