Conscious Creations
February 17, 2003
I've finished He, She and It. At the end the cyborg, Yod, is sent by his creator as a suicide weapon. Yod, who has become a person, is not keen on this but cannot reject his programming. So when he blows up he also blows up his creator and the lab that contains the record of his creation. (00007L)
Malkah, the old and wise but sexy grandmother figure says to Nili, an augmented human: (00007M)
Yod was a mistake. You're the right path, Nili. It's better to make people into partial machines than to create machines that feel and yet are still controlled like cleaning robots. The creation of a conscious being as any kind of tool--supposed to exist only to fill our needs--is a disaster. (00007N)
I'm undecided about the value of surgical augmentation but I think the differences between and issues related to Nili and Yod are similar to those seen between Engelbart and Licklider that we discussed in augury last year. (00007O)
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