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bear_helms

Living Inside the Shell

Apr 16, 2011 18:29

This is a lengthy, self-indulgent post. Move along.
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draque April 18 2011, 20:40:26 UTC

The whole GitS universe is one that I really fell in love with, myself. The promise of immortality is one of the obvious draws of a world running by those rules, but for people who already enjoy experimentation and adventure with their own consciousness, I think that's only the beginning of the possible explorations. Want to experience a new perspective? Erase your memories and replace them with something else, then restore the original memories from backup. Or make multiple copies of yourself into different bodies, and merge them into one later or. Or just do daily memory syncs, like the Tachikoma...

I dunno. It just creates the possibilities of all kinds of really crazy and interesting situations. ^^

bear_helms April 19 2011, 01:03:59 UTC

And they hint at some obvious abuses, the new cybercrimes possible, the most notable being ghost-hacked, by which i presume means you are puppeteered by another person, just as the Major can remotely control two prosthetic bodies in addition to her own. The excuse of not being present at the time of a murder or any other crime is also no longer an excuse, either ( ... )

draque April 19 2011, 20:18:40 UTC

I'm a software architect, so I can totally understand those dangers from a completely technical standpoint ^^. Still though, a lot of the fiction that I write is in a similarly Gibsonian universe to GitS, and the possibilities that it presents are so interesting that I would jump at the chance to live in a similar world.

bear_helms April 19 2011, 21:08:11 UTC

Although my agreeing to enter such a world may prove to be an Alice Through the One-Way Looking Glass, I too harbor too many romanticized notions about the potential in complex AIs and emerging intelligence and consciousness in sufficiently complex systems to listen to caution and wait for the Nth generation of cyberization - perhaps being content to be a Jameson model cyborg without chance of upgrade. (I probably also would opt for the Texan accent, being of that pecular 'nationality' myself ( ... )