in the shell

I have been thinking a bit about a cyberbrain is and due to its use I think we all agree that it is more than just a MMI. I would be reasonable to assume that various sensory systems are replaced to avoid them from bottlenecking sensory input. Memory might be replaced because of the ways ghost hack...

Well in all arrogance, if you allow me to know something for just a moment, I would say that trees are not self aware due to their biology making it impossible. Maybe I didn't chose my example well. Let's take AIs instead. When will you know that your AI is self-aware (and thus deserves some rights...

Just a comment on Elmo's post first. There is a difference between knowledge absorbtion through one's own interpretation and a complete synchronization (like the tachikomas) which is a automated copy/merge (as I see it). about nature and components When the major changes body in the "Corporate ...

I don’t think there is any need to worry about the synchronization of information destroying individuality, because (as a major difference to tachikomas) we don’t share the exact same nature. I think the point is that people in SAC tends to share more and more the same "nature" in the sen...

We could always discus whenever anything is actually a “fixed notion” as thing change when evolving but I don’t thing we will get anything interesting from it. I agree. Just wanted to temperate your statement. From my understanding, human beings have a long history of blindness as to the nature of ...

Hi everyone. my bland nick comes from my initials (I usually use only rcog, but did have some problem with registration). I am a computer science student and spend most of my offline time doing tai chi. Stumbled on the gits movie some years ago. I gave a try to the first SAC season recently. I espec...

I though I would just mention Greg Egan. Very though provoking, some called him the new PKD. A few of his short stories are available (legally) here Besides that, PKD is my all-time number one. Great style + interesting subjects. "The Three Stigmatas of Palmer Eldrich" took me a while to f...

Do you think the SAC phenomena is a good thing or should we be trying to retain individual thought? can true individuality stand out after parallelizing information(a la tachikoma :tachi!: or Kuze)? First of all, what is individuality? When you make a decision, how much of it is influenced by innat...

I think that ideally, we should rule with reason, not being ruled by reason; that is we should realize that these rules “logic” as we like to call them are nothing more than concepts devised by us. Therefore we ought to created rules that work towards our (our as in humanity) goals. Morals should b...