Sea Wasp wrote:
> David DeLaney wrote:
>> Sea Wasp <seawaspObvious@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> Not for "personal use", no.
>>
>>
>> Waaah!
>>
>>
>>> You might or might not get to personally meet your creation. Let's
>>> say it's part of a competition to make the best possible human (or
>>> near human) you can, based on (A) your view of what "best" is, and
>>> (B) some fictional template or templates. You can only build one
>>> superman/woman, though -- no multiples.
>>
>>
>> ...well, it'd be cruel to build Kimball Kinnison without Clarissa as
>> well.
>> Hmmm.
>
> You could provide him with a VR/simulant Clarissa, remember; HE
> won't necessarily know the difference, unless you tell him. You're only
> allowed one REAL superman. If you need a bunch of friends around him to
> make it work, you can simulate those.
>
You can't really simulate *that* one. Kim is defined by his
extraordinary mind - and Clarissa's is, we know, just as good as
his, along complementary lines. The first time they go into a
wide-open two-way, if not sooner, the jig is going to be up,
unless the 'simulated' mind has all the qualities of the real
one. In which case it's still a real mind, which happens to be
instantiated in a virtual environment. But it's precisely their
mental capacities that make them 'superhuman' - you have, to all
intents and purposes, still got two superfolks there.
Conversely, if you *can* fool 'Kimball Kinnison' into believing
that some lesser entity is his Chris for more than about a
skillionth of a second, I'm pretty sure you've failed to simulate
him.
--
Cheers,
Gray
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