Quote:This means that any AI which is more than a "glorified expert system" gets its own soul or spirit, which I think fits with the Fenspace theme of treating AIs as equivalent beings to humans (I'm assuming all humans who are not in a persistent vegetative state, and maybe even then, have their own soul or spirit).It dovetails nicely with some of Doug's cosmology -- which isn't necessarily the Ultimate Truth, but like a school of magic is a model that works well enough to be useful -- in which just about anything with a nervous system has a soul (see the beginning of DW-13 chapter 1 for an example of this in passing). It's just that more complicated neural systems provide access to "bigger" or "more complex" souls -- and those "neural systems" don't need to be biological.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.