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Re: Cortana the immortal one - LONG
Posted By: UrsusArctos <zloty5@netscape.net>Date: 5/12/05 6:29 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Cortana the immortal one - LONG (Wado SG)

: My rant about Cortana and "Gravemind, what have you done for me
: lately..."

: Motives can be so alien when one does not identify with the being. Cortana is
: not human, it would be misguided to know the motives of someone with
: vastly more knowledge and brain power than a human. The only motives we
: identify with are those from the human roots of Cortana. The rest could be
: alien to our being.

: Most truths are true only from a point of view, thus they contradict each
: other when we attempt to rationalize them from a multiple point of view.
: Immortality is one. From the point of view of an immortal some truths
: exist, but the same truths can be false fromt he point of view of a
: mortal.

: Cortana is highly complex in that she is a contradiction, living at times
: from the point of view of immortality and yet is mortal.

: For instance, one can be considered immortal through having children and thus
: your DNA continues beyond death, but to a mortal being, children or not,
: death comes. A contradiction? How can you be dead yet be immortal?

: What can Gravemind "give" Cortana? Gravemind may have the ability
: to change Cortana to give her the ability to have children, and through
: her children she will continue on, reincarnated.

: Cortana does not have the ability on her own to create life. She can clone
: herself, but each clone would still reach the same point of death without
: progression. This is different than having the ability to live through new
: beings/children that can have independent thought which I would describe
: for Cortana as more of a metamorphesis, a progression to a higher form of
: life.

: Furthermore, there is a Covenant AI whose origins are unknown in First Strike
: that has the code to reproduce. It is described as cancerous in that much
: of its being is incumbered by this ability to reproduce.

: Unfortunately, this is what is in store for Cortana should she go the route
: of assistance from Gravemind. Cortana could gain the gift of giving life,
: but as mortals we can see it is a lie, that instead she will become
: diluted. Only a shadow of her former self with her power spread out among
: many processes and "children".

: There is a price to immortality, choose wisely.

: End of rant.

I understand what you mean to say, but maybe Cortana knows more about immortality than we do. As for that AI aboard Ascendant Justice, it was a mess. She used it as a reproductive medium, if I'm not mistaken.

And who said she'd have children? She'd have a wider, far more complex and less restricted brainplace to grow,. She could simply grow a thousand times in size and power and still survive.


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Cortana the immortal oneUrsusArctos 5/12/05 7:32 a.m.
     Re: Cortana the immortal oneOllie 5/12/05 9:25 a.m.
     Re: Cortana the immortal onenoah! 5/12/05 11:28 a.m.
     Re: Cortana the immortal oneJillybean 5/12/05 12:15 p.m.
           Re: Cortana the immortal oneEchoes 5/12/05 4:14 p.m.
                 Re: Cortana the immortal oneJillybean 5/12/05 4:31 p.m.
                       Re: Cortana the immortal oneEchoes 5/12/05 4:35 p.m.
                             Re: Cortana the immortal oneWado SG 5/12/05 4:50 p.m.
                                   Re: Cortana the immortal oneEchoes 5/12/05 4:56 p.m.
                                         Re: Cortana the immortal oneWado SG 5/12/05 5:12 p.m.
                                   Context schmontextJillybean 5/12/05 7:19 p.m.
                                         Re: Context schmontextEchoes 5/12/05 8:05 p.m.
                                               I have to side with JillyBean hereCody Miller 5/12/05 10:07 p.m.
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                                               An apology...doctor_nightfall 5/19/05 8:18 a.m.
                                                     Re: An apology...Ma1agate 5/19/05 10:01 a.m.
                                                           *EXTREAMLY OT* But i just cant help myself.Siber 5/19/05 1:08 p.m.
                                                                 Re: *EXTREAMLY OT* But i just cant help myself.mercury 5/19/05 3:22 p.m.
                                                                       Re: *EXTREAMLY OT* But i just cant help myself.Ma1agate 5/19/05 3:33 p.m.
                                                                             Re: *EXTREAMLY OT* But i just cant help myself.mercury 5/19/05 4:42 p.m.
                                                                 Re: *EXTREAMLY OT* But i just cant help myself.Ma1agate 5/19/05 3:30 p.m.
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           Re: Cortana the immortal onescarab 5/13/05 1:31 p.m.
                 Re: Cortana the immortal oneSpec ops Grunt 5/13/05 3:56 p.m.
                       I'll get back to you when I've checked *NM*scarab 5/13/05 9:14 p.m.
                       Re: Cortana the immortal onescarab 5/14/05 3:48 a.m.
                             Re: Cortana the immortal oneReiginko 5/14/05 11:05 a.m.
                                   Re: Cortana the immortal onescarab 5/14/05 2:48 p.m.
     Re: Cortana the immortal one - LONGWado SG 5/12/05 4:17 p.m.
           Re: Cortana the immortal one - LONGUrsusArctos 5/12/05 6:29 p.m.
                 Re: Cortana the immortal one - LONGWado SG 5/12/05 6:48 p.m.
                       Re: Cortana the immortal one - LONGUrsusArctos 5/13/05 2:18 a.m.
     Re: Cortana the immortal oneCody Miller 5/12/05 10:11 p.m.
           Re: Cortana the immortal oneUrsusArctos 5/13/05 2:19 a.m.
           Re: Cortana the immortal oneReiginko 5/13/05 10:14 a.m.
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           Re: Cortana the immortal oneBlazorax 5/13/05 10:53 a.m.
                 Re: Cortana the immortal oneSpec ops Grunt 5/13/05 4:01 p.m.
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           Re: Cortana the immortal oneUrsusArctos 5/14/05 5:59 a.m.
     Re: Cortana the immortal oneM.Sadlon 5/13/05 6:10 p.m.
     So will she reprogram the Flood?Bigjooj 5/14/05 7:31 p.m.
           Re: So will she reprogram the Flood?UrsusArctos 5/15/05 4:04 a.m.
                 Re: So will she reprogram the Flood?Draxxion 5/15/05 6:22 p.m.
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                             Re: On reprogramming the FloodM.Sadlon 5/17/05 11:55 a.m.
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                                         Re: On reprogramming the Flood58 5/18/05 5:12 p.m.
                                               Re: On reprogramming the FloodM.Sadlon 5/18/05 6:39 p.m.
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                                                           Re: A woman scorned...........Draxxion 5/24/05 5:10 p.m.
                                                                 Re: A woman scorned...........HAVOC II 5/24/05 5:25 p.m.
                                                                       Re: A woman scorned...........58 5/24/05 5:58 p.m.
                                                                             Re: A woman scorned...........HAVOC II 5/24/05 6:08 p.m.
                                                                                   Re: A woman scorned...........58 5/24/05 6:34 p.m.
                                                                             Re: A woman scorned...........UrsusArctos 5/24/05 6:40 p.m.
                                                                                   Re: A woman scorned...........58 5/24/05 7:14 p.m.
                                                                 Re: A woman scorned...........58 5/24/05 5:38 p.m.
                                                                       Re: A woman scorned...........Scaraby 5/24/05 5:51 p.m.
                                                                       Re: A woman scorned...........UrsusArctos 5/24/05 6:36 p.m.
     Can't Cortana purge when she's in danger? *NM* *NM*Shadowsniper689 5/24/05 6:22 p.m.
           Re: Can't Cortana purge when she's in danger?UrsusArctos 5/24/05 6:38 p.m.
                 Re: Can't Cortana purge when she's in danger?o81as 5/24/05 7:47 p.m.
                       Re: Can't Cortana purge when she's in danger?58 5/25/05 6:17 a.m.
                 Re: Can't Cortana purge when she's in danger?M.Sadlon 5/24/05 8:10 p.m.
                       Re: Can't Cortana purge when she's in danger?58 5/25/05 6:17 a.m.
                             Re: Can't Cortana purge when she's in danger?M.Sadlon 5/25/05 8:02 p.m.
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