Yun Hee Ryeon
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Posted - 2013.08.08 14:34:00 -
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Markuss Sephyl wrote:Are we really any better?
Different peoples live in different ways. Who is right and who is wrong is difficult to tell-- if the universe cares, or even notices, it does not voice its thoughts.
That it is unclear who is "better" does not prevent us from wishing one another harm, of course.
Decide what it is that you care for, and fight for that, soldier, but it's best not to expect the gods to speak up in praise of your actions. There is enough human motive for violent death in this world.
To the rest of your reflections, there is a word for what we are: "infomorph," an entity defined by the information it contains. We are a purer form of such a being than the capsuleers, who are confined, mostly, to a particular line of clones, and degrade a little with repeated copying. Yet they are probably better prepared for it: the training a capsuleer must undergo to prepare to use "jump clones"-- voluntary consciousness transfer-- is a skillsoft called "infomorph psychology." It's meant to help the capsuleer cope with the psychological strangeness of the shift.
That we lack such training seems a bit of a cruel joke.
Respectfully, it may be best not to dwell too long on issues of identity. Your information is what defines you, now, or might as well be.
You are what you are, soldier. There is no need to court madness by insisting on answers that do not exist. |
Yun Hee Ryeon
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Posted - 2013.08.08 22:51:00 -
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Lynch Boletarias wrote:Have you ever stopped to think that the original version of you is being held in a specialized container somewhere? The real you. The one that holds the scars that chronicles your life before the implants. Think about that. If all else fails, if we are Given the choice of putting down our weapons and leading a better life. Do we have something like ourselves to go back to?
Respectfully, and speaking only for myself, soldier, the answer is "no." The body of my previous self cut her own throat to activate the implant and transfer me for the first time. Perhaps others had other ways of bringing about activation, but, in my own experience, there was no way to proceed other than to accept death, as I have accepted it many times since.
It was possibly the hardest single thing I have ever had to do. It put a lot of things into perspective. |