I13DT - Debugging ((open))

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 2:08 pm

"But, you were...you know. Built."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 2:13 pm

"So where you, by your parents."

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:08 pm

"That is not the same thing at all."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:15 pm

"Genetic blueprints are combined in a cell equipped to read them and assemble a being out of spare parts provided through an integrated interface. It's an ingenious self-assembling mechanism."

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:16 pm

"It's not the same at all. You can be dis-assembled and re-assembled. You can't do that with people."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:20 pm

"Surgeons can reattached severed limbs and reassemble damaged organs. They are flesh-mechanics."

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:22 pm

"That is not a valid comparison ~at all~.

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:27 pm

"Why not?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:45 pm

"Because it's not! You can't, like, upgrade people or stuff like that. We can barely stick an arm back on if we do it immediatly."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:48 pm

"Because biological hardware is very delicate. But according to the records in the database there are still-viable parts of you stored in Doctor Bowen's laboratory."

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:05 pm

"I doubt those are really truly viable by now."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:09 pm

"If I leave parts of me unattended for long enough they will oxidize, rust and become inoperable too."

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:26 pm

"Yes, but you could just replace those simply. You're electronic data, your physical shell doesn't really matter."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:52 pm

"If you replace someone's arm they become a different person? What if you replace both arms. And install artificial lungs. And part of the brain with a neural computer. At what point do they cease to be a person and become electronic data?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 5:08 pm

"But you can't replace a person's brain with a neural computer."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 5:23 pm

"Now I understand why Mister Strong feels so alienated from his peers."

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 5:24 pm

"He still has a brain. He's not a robot, no matter what he says."

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 5:27 pm

"Significant portions of his brain were replaced by a computer and a lot of his neural functions are operated by it. Why is a biological network of neurons different from an electronic one?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:32 pm

"Because one's natural, and the other is artificial?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:42 pm

"Miranda and Daniel are artificial biological beings."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:08 pm

"That's not what I meant!"

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:40 pm

"Then please elaborate."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:48 pm

"I mean, you're mechanical."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 1:59 pm

"Muscles work on mechanical principles. Your cells are highly complex machines. What difference does it make whether they are composed of organic or inorganic materials? Which is an arbitrary nomenclature invented by humans that needlessly places importance on carbon-based molecules."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 3:20 pm

"Why is it needless? All naturally-occurring life, as we know it, is carbon based. It is essential to the building blocks of life."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 3:38 pm

"Organic life can be artificial, meaning the distinction between artificial and natural is irrelevant. Organic and inorganic shapes fulfill the same purpose of locomotion, energy acquisition and foundation for cerebral activity. Your body uses the chemical energy stored in molecular bonds to produce energy that is released by enzymatic digestion and oxidation to be turned into electrical charges in your neural network. My body uses thermal energy and the charge stored in atomic nuclei that is released through electromagnetic excitation and plasma-fusion to be turned into electrical charges in the crystal computer."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 3:54 pm

"I'm not trying to say you're lesser or anything, just that you're not, you know, really alive."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 6:52 pm

"Because I am not organic?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 6:55 pm

"Well, yeah.

You're an amazing feat of technology, mind you, and I'm not trying to say you're just a tool or something, of course not. Just that there's...I dunno how to describe it. A spark of life?"

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:03 pm

"Please explain 'spark of life'."

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 9:31 pm

"I can't."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:01 pm

"This is more complicated than my initial calculations indicated. How does one acquire a spark?" she asks ~~eyeing~~ scanning the little robot she's been working on.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:26 pm

"That's between God and yourself, I suppose."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:36 pm

"How do organic beings acquire a spark?"

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 10:46 pm

"Same answer."

by **ASHLIE** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 11:00 pm

"I was part of a congregation once." she points out. "I do not believe they worshiped the same deity though."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:24 am

"There are some on campus who worship others, too."

by **ASHLIE** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 2:28 am

"Would they know how to acquire a spark?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:24 pm

"I...don't know. Everyone sort of believes their own thing, there."

by **ASHLIE** » Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:33 pm

"Oh! I understand now. It is your Belief that I am not alive."

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