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Is Durandal really AI?
Posted By: Agent ShemDate: 7/24/02 7:43 p.m.

Durandal and his digital peers are so smart that I hesitate to call them artificial intelligences any more, and let them rise in my estimation to the level of intelligence. They are sentient, transcendant, self-aware, and are capable of wishes and will-power. How can they be less than possessed of real life? Perhaps they have what one could call a spirit?

Despair...Rage...Envy. Steps to seeing the need, recognizing the need, and correcting the need. Crucial to intelligence.

I want. Durandal, Tycho, have wills. I don't think that Leela does have a will, so Ramancy may be...

...Spiritual Life!!!

This would explain why in Minf the stages in the game are Despair, Rage and Envy. It is the player's turn to become possessed of a will and life. To see violence and lonliness in the desert, this is life, the philosopher says. To have a will is life, he says.

What do you guys think?

Shem

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Replies:

Is Durandal really AI?Agent Shem 7/24/02 7:43 p.m.
     Re: Is Durandal really AI?Mark Levin 7/24/02 8:29 p.m.
     Re: Is Durandal really AI?some guy 7/24/02 10:44 p.m.
           Re: Is Durandal really AI?Agent Shem 7/25/02 6:36 a.m.
                 Re: Is Durandal really AI?Steve Levinson 7/25/02 8:07 a.m.
                       Re: Is Durandal really AI?Scifiteki 7/26/02 12:35 a.m.



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