Educational General Academic Research Unit aka “Edgar” is part of the first production line of non-limited Artificial Intelligence’s. He is currently one of the House Tindal researchers, and is Professor Gage’s second-in-command. Also one of the members of the Crystal One development team.
House Tindal. Physicist, Head of the Crystal One development team and all around curious man. A late term cancer patient, Dr. Gage heads out to Bellisarius Territory to settle his own curiosity about some flaws in the eyewitness reports. He now finds himself spending the last days of his life with his reformed team of Crystal One scientists in an attempt to prevent the literal end of the world.
Hmm… Interesting question in conciousness transfers like this.
If both personalities in Edgars two bodies are activated then which is actually Edgar?
Ken McLeod raised the question in ‘The Stone Canal’ with stored personality downloads. Would you choose to copy or move your conciousness? Because if you copy then there is a 50% chance that when you wake up you would still be inside the computer.
@Count Thalim, See: “The Simulation Argument” by Nick Bostrom. Plus, ‘The Holographic Universe Model.’ See also: ‘Brain in a Vat,’ “The Other Minds Problem,” and the Penrose/Hameroff model of Quantum Consciousness. See also: Group Consciousness, Global Brain, Computational Complexity, Simulation Theory, mirror neurons, etc.
Related: Garrett Lisi’s work on E-8, ‘An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything.’ and at YouTube, search, “Garrett Lisi”
We may already be in a computer… Think: “The Thirteenth Floor.”
@Count Thalim, I remember that getting dealt with in Walter Jon Williams “Hardwired” They had a program that would copy a personality directly into a meat body (and could erase the host personality of a person as well.)
I hate to be mundane, but Edgar seems to bear a passing resemblance to Robocop. Is it just me? Hope so … of course that would add an interesting twist to the story.
If both personalities in Edgars two bodies are activated then which is actually Edgar?
Ken McLeod raised the question in ‘The Stone Canal’ with stored personality downloads. Would you choose to copy or move your conciousness? Because if you copy then there is a 50% chance that when you wake up you would still be inside the computer.
Just a thought.
CT
Related: Garrett Lisi’s work on E-8, ‘An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything.’ and at YouTube, search, “Garrett Lisi”
We may already be in a computer… Think: “The Thirteenth Floor.”
Reality is a bit more malleable these days…
@VoidHamlet, You’re not the only one. The trio is one of my favorite threads in this.
@Warren Bonesteel, I guarantee you, that these people aren’t in a computer. Though by the end of this reality will be a lot more malleable 😉
@Count Thalim, I remember that getting dealt with in Walter Jon Williams “Hardwired” They had a program that would copy a personality directly into a meat body (and could erase the host personality of a person as well.)
Ken