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"So take your last look at sunshine and brook
And send your regrets to the Czar,
For by this I imply you are going to die,
Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar."
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And send your regrets to the Czar,
For by this I imply you are going to die,
Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar."
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This actually deeply intrigue me. Enough for me to come out of the woodworks and finally post on one of your works again.
Mechanical life-forms as well as the thought process behind alien entities has always fascinated me. I'm used to it, in fact... a lot of my stories revolve around such species, whether artificial or natural, and what impact it has on them.
Not all struggles are dealt with the same way. But some feelings are universal, despite being alien to the human mind.
What really makes me wonder here is the mind of the titular machine. In particular... his treatment.
It is the big conflict and the big dilemna of machines. VI versus AI. An AI is alive, a VI is only a simulation of life. And while it is possible for a VI to evolve beyond its programming and SEEM alive... many times, they can only reach so far, coming so close to actual birth but hitting limitations and never being able to reach a state where they can be considered truly aware and thinking.
This robot seems to have indeed evolved beyond its programming. And it would be so easy, so tempting to think its handlers some of the ignorant and self-centered beings who deny to anything not of their species the right of life. But... I did not read this story. Not yet. And the possibility could be that those words and this feeling of fear is the cry of a stillborn soul, of a machine that indeed grew beyond its programming but could not reach self-awareness.
My guess is that I will find out as I read this. As it stands, the teaser and first page of this work has intrigued me.
Good job!
Mechanical life-forms as well as the thought process behind alien entities has always fascinated me. I'm used to it, in fact... a lot of my stories revolve around such species, whether artificial or natural, and what impact it has on them.
Not all struggles are dealt with the same way. But some feelings are universal, despite being alien to the human mind.
What really makes me wonder here is the mind of the titular machine. In particular... his treatment.
It is the big conflict and the big dilemna of machines. VI versus AI. An AI is alive, a VI is only a simulation of life. And while it is possible for a VI to evolve beyond its programming and SEEM alive... many times, they can only reach so far, coming so close to actual birth but hitting limitations and never being able to reach a state where they can be considered truly aware and thinking.
This robot seems to have indeed evolved beyond its programming. And it would be so easy, so tempting to think its handlers some of the ignorant and self-centered beings who deny to anything not of their species the right of life. But... I did not read this story. Not yet. And the possibility could be that those words and this feeling of fear is the cry of a stillborn soul, of a machine that indeed grew beyond its programming but could not reach self-awareness.
My guess is that I will find out as I read this. As it stands, the teaser and first page of this work has intrigued me.
Good job!
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