Graham Woodland wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Part of the goal is to get as close as possible -- but possibility
will limit you. In this case you could make a super-competent AI that
THINKS it's Clarissa, and which is at least as capable as the Kinnison
design.
An example of one of these adaptations would be, oh, Wolverine from
the X-Men. I can use the Near-Unobtainium (which is carbon, so easily
integrated) for the "adamantium" skeleton and as the main component of
his claws, I can enhance his toughness and speed and strength with the
right modifications and give him regeneration to some extent with the
nanotech -- but I'm not going to actually reach the "Healing Factor"
level of the comics, or the true indestructibility of the adamantium,
etc.
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