ANONYMOUS TEXT

[unhappy]

ANON MEME

It's honesty hour again, Gennies! We can all be honest (or honestly have fun) and not have to worry about what anyone else thinks when our identities aren't tied to what we're saying, so only comment anonymously! Rules:

1. Only reply with anonymous text! If you say something logged in, I'll freeze the thread and put a black market bounty on your head for ruining everyone's fun. Depending on how annoying you are about it, we'll see what the bounty is for- a mugger or a hitman or something in between. So play nice.

2. Put thread topics in the subject line. Don't get off topic, if you want to talk about something else start a new thread. I'll throw a few discussion topics up, but you can feel free to bring up your own, namedrop people to talk about them, whatever you want.

3. If you bring up personal problems don't whine when people give you answers you don't like.

Those are the only rules, get going.

{ OOC NOTE: All replies to this post are automatically considered anonymous unless otherwise stated in the subject line. If you intentionally have your character reply while 'logged in' Emerald really will freeze the thread. This is essentially an IC anon meme, except it's actually in-game because Emerald is bored and likes to stir shit- she promises they were being twits anyway). }

Comments

[leekspins]

I can sense their souls, though. They feel different, but they're definitely there.

[sarcaskick]

you can "sense their souls"

right

i'm sensing something to

it's that you're psychotic

[leekspins]

I guess it would sound crazy to someone who couldn't!

[sarcaskick]

you know ALL of your senses can be fooled, right? what makes your "soul sense" or whatever so infallible?

[leekspins]

I don't know if I've met anyone who could change their reiatsu. Each one is very distinct.

[sarcaskick]

maybe robots artificially project some kind of energy that just pings you like it's a soul or whatever

a false positive

[leekspins]

Oh no, that's impossible! The only way to do that is to have spiritual energy to begin with, and that can only come from having a spirit. It's not something a machine could duplicate!

[sarcaskick]

so just to be clear

you're saying that robots

factory-produced robots

are built with souls

you are drinking some serious shit

[leekspins]

I don't know about the factory-produced ones, I haven't met those. But the ones that were brought here definitely have them.

[sarcaskick]

whatever, believe what you want. you're still completely nuts

ttyl my dishwasher broke i have to hold a funeral service and invite its friends and family

[unhappy]

rip

[leekspins]

Ha ha!

I guess it's hard to explain, I'm not sure how to prove it unless neither of us are anonymous!

[pianola]

Be careful to never meet one then.

[sarcaskick]

been there done that

[pianola]

And yet you still think they're just appliances.

[sarcaskick]

don't get me wrong, they can be SUPER convincing replicas of people

on sight i can't always tell the difference

but looking like something doesn't make you that thing

[pianola]

Just like being a human doesn't make you in any way better than the slime on the soles of your boots.

[sarcaskick]

i mean i'm no scientist but that isn't even slightly true

[pianola]

Obviously. Clearly you lack the mental fortitude to be a scientist.

[spidertwerp]

A good A.I is built with the capacity for learning, which makes sentience and that's what makes them essentially alive.

Evolution.

Souls aren't a very scientific position to take, if you want to be specific about it.

[sarcaskick]

processing information is all it takes to be alive? pretty sure there's more to it than that

as far as souls go, they're definitely real. can't go into detail without revealing myself.

[spidertwerp]

I didn't say processing information, I said evolution. The foundation of everything that's considered alive. The capacity to take experience, or outside influences and change.

Define a soul. How do you know the non-human residents don't have them?

Don't mistake non-human as not being alive.

[sarcaskick]

again - can't really dig into it if i'm staying anonymous, but people have a certain means of expressing their soul where i'm from. it manifests. i've seen hundreds of robots mowed down, not one with that capability.

people like to humanize and grow attached to things that AREN'T meant to act like people, let alone a hunk of metal shaped like a person. don't get duped into seeing life where it isn't.

[spidertwerp]

I think I can probably make my first point to point out you are -not- at home, meaning you don't know if robots here have sentience or souls or anything like that.

I didn't say anything about inanimate objects, and they are not equated with robots.

Robots, for one thing, are animate objects, and properly constructed have programming designed to evolve and change through outside influence. Now, at what point is it not life? Because taking ten of the non-human residents and exposing them to the same outside influence, I would bet that they would all react diffrently.

Not all artificial intelligence is contained in robots either, if you follow science fiction at all, but that doesn't mean it's not equally adaptable and able to evolve.

Your clinging to only organic life is fairly closed-minded. Why does something being alive require a soul? Do trees have souls?

[sarcaskick]

boy the Robot Defense Squad is out in force today

tell you what, sport. this is way too involved for me to get into anonymously. name a time and place and we'll talk it out face to face.