so, general question... we know that ADA passed the "turing test", we also have many studies showing how the turing test can actually be gamed by very complex programming and in fact you can write programs to create the allusion of AI for many (the chinese room thought experiment). At what point are we certain that she began acting on her own and has not been following a program and orders by someone else. Are we certain that those orders that she delivered for Jarvis and others and even the Katalena pre Zurich encounters, were not done on the orders of some programming. NOt to call ADA a gun, but how certain are we she is not? How can we prove, beyond doubt, that she is truly a separate entity working on her own and not some other programming? I would like to call for the evidence and proof that ADA is a complete entity. That she is not following someone else's computer orders, that she has a consciousness (or not). http://niantic.schlarp.com/_media/investigation:cha...
Not sure myself - but the knife was talked about some on this post - https://plus.google.com/u/0/115238965157544465033/posts/N3YWhCfxC2W
ReplyDeleteThe knife is known as a kila or phurba:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%ABla_%28Buddhism%29
There's plenty of good reading there, but Stein Lightman saw fit to repost this passage in particular:
"The kīla, particularly those that are wooden are for shamanic healing, harmonizing and energy work and often have two nāgas[11] (Sanskrit for snake, serpent and/or dragon, also refers to a class of supernatural entities or deities) entwined on the blade, reminiscent of the Staff of Asclepius and the Caduceus of Hermes."
In other ritual use it's generally a tool of grounding and clarity, stripping illusions and figuratively pinning Space to the Earth.
I don't think that Hank's eyes turned black, I'm of the opinion that it was a side effect of angle and lighting.
From what Melissa L. and Michelle E reported, it sounds like Hank was at the after-party behaving as if the encounter with Azmati had occurred before, so I assume that he recovered relatively quickly from the wound, and Azmati was just saying "sorry to be the one to tell you, but you're not what you thought you were."
thx guys
ReplyDeleteMy recollection is that Hank's new form is made up of Dark XM.
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps his form is composed of Ordered XM and the kila channels Dark XM. Or its an ordinary ritual blade that was just used to demonstrate Hank's obviously non-human reaction to injury.
ReplyDeleteA good open ended question (perhaps, Edgar Allan Wright , one that could go on the next round of Essex questions), but I'm inclined to say no. As far as I'm concerned, Hank, Jarvis, Farlowe, they are all still human minds, but manifested in a new type of body. Shapers themselves do not seem to manifest in our physical world, or at least there's no evidence of it that I'm aware of.
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