Operation location: Comona Is.
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On that note, now for our continuing story on notable new technologies from Neucom as well as other companies. |
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The duplication of human consciousness through “sublimation”. |
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First of all, we are linked up with the one in charge at the site who is advancing its development, Neucom’s Dr. Simon, via Data Swallow, so |
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let’s begin there. |
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Hello. |
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Oh... may I blather on now? |
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Well... uh, perhaps I should start talking about the history? |
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Computer technology from around when governments still held power |
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was little more than a tool for humans. |
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And so, only in such fantasies known as “sci-fi novels”, “films”, or “video games” did we see such dreams known as “robots” and “cyborgs”, where computers or machines were given personality. |
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However, as for a clever computer or artificial life-form that has the complex sentiments of human beings so far, |
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I have yet to meet one. |
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Why is that? |
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The conception is mistaken from the start. |
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—yes. Making life from nothing is still something only God can do. |
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Instead, if we humans, in contrast, could become machines or computers, |
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that’s a possibility. |
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—just for example. |
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I wear glasses, but |
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thinking a certain way about it, |
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you could call me a partially mechanized cyborg. |
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A number of mechanisms like this are there to supplement human ability. |
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A final realm in extension of that would be |
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to digitize the personality that composes the human brain as-is, as data, and |
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copy it onto computers; |
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in other words, developing a bootleg copy of the brain. |
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That is my research. |
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—you follow? |
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This is not a pipe dream of times past. |
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In practice, approving of this plan, |
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there are those who wish to participate in experiments as well as repeated offers from Neucom, at least.... |
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Some of the mainstream media are slamming me and my experiments, but uh... |
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It’s like the way people way back when used to criticize, when they saw the shape of an airplane and asked if such a heavy lump of iron would fly; |
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foolish cowards—. |
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Oh! Excuse us. |
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It seems some circuit has gone bad. |
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Doctor, can you hear us? |
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Well, let’s go to commercial. |
Cynthia |
First off, this message is a personal matter. |
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And... oh right, |
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the shuttle guys were thankful, too. |
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The results of the experiments in space didn’t come to naught, either. |
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I, too, am thankful that you came over to Neucom. |
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If I had your skills, |
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I’d surely be able to sync with whatever new R-Number, too. |
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It was as if you could even feel the wind on your wingtips, I thought. |
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—that’s all. |
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Later.... |
Cynthia |
You haven’t come back yet? |
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About the shuttle thing.... |
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Thank goodness they were able to land somehow. |
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With this, Neucom’s continued experiments in space have not gone to waste, |
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though it’s a bit of a shame we were a bit inefficient taking care of General. |
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I’ll consider today’s flight data my own way, and |
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next time I’ll send them to you. |
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Refer to them by the next sortie. |