The Poetry of Nerds and Geeks

soldier4242

Just dropping in to say I'm enjoying this too... thanks for starting it, soldier

Sorry I have not posted a new quote for you all in a while. I am trying to maintain a standard that we have done pretty well at living up to so far. You are very welcome. I am glad that others are actually enjoying this as much as I am. There was a point at the beginning where I thought I was the only one who was in to this sort of stuff.

This one is from Ghost in the Shell where the Puppet Master is wrestling with the idea of whether or not AI is alive or not. He feels he meets most of the definition of being alive but that he falls short.

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Puppet Master: I refer to myself as an intelligent life form because I am sentient and I am able to recognize my own existence, but in my present state I am still incomplete. I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms: reproducing and dying.

Major Motoko Kusanagi: But you can copy yourself.

Puppet Master: A copy is just an identical image. There is the possibility that a single virus could destroy an entire set of systems and copies do not give rise to variety and originality. Life perpetuates itself through diversity and this includes the ability to sacrifice itself when necessary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die, obliterating an entire set of memory and information. Only genes remain. Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system.
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