A sentient copy created for a research project. This is both really neat, and really troubling. What happens to Duplicate Leucoisa when Castela’s done here? Does she just get unmade? And will she be completely fine with that? This has been the entire premise of more than one sci-fi novel that ends badly for all involved…
Most likely, the sentient recording is part of the files the Library maintains, amd eLeucoisa was created to answer any questions Castela or Atsali might have.
Probably “she” won’t remain active unless someone requests the same information from the library. When deactivated the library will probably retain a record of the interaction so if Castela comes back they will be able to continue this conversation.
Castela was a person, i think? Perhaps when the blackthorn started to show indications of sentience and individuality she felt the need to protect it… her..
I think that the Library is post-singularity, pretty much any way that you would want to define it.
In which case not just Leucoisa, but each and every one of us is there, somewhere in the stacks. Only most of the time no-one is accessing our data. (Unless this life is our data being accessed!)
yep, that’s pretty much the text-book definition of what the mundane scientists are still in the dark about what we/they in the Wapsi-verse call “Dark Matter”… the religious aspect calls it the “Akashic Records”
it’s pretty cool that both statements are correct (in the Wapi-verse that is.) , it’s the material record of EVERYTHING that has EVER HAPPENED, happening RIGHT NOW, or WILL EVER happen in the future… and The Library is the way to read that data; that’s why the books are indestructible and come back into existence after they get “destroyed” (or angry thoughts are directed their way)… you are NOT ACTUALLY damaging the ACTUAL DATA, just a”shadow copy” of the data contained within, similar to how Tsillah makes her shadow form that we in the 3D universe interact with, but she is REALLY just the 2D “Shadow on the Wall”… if someone were to “kill” the small humanoid “girl” that we SEE as her, they aren’t REALLY killing HER… just the Shadow of her… same for the books.
as to how that goes here in the Q-Room, well… all the Library has to do is “replay” a portion of the Real Leucosa’s life file, and because it doesn’t have Leucosa’s Soul to give it that “spark of life” it provides the motivational force for it, and uses the DATA from Leucosa as the “A.I. program” that we’re seeing right now, and because it has access to ALL the “data that makes up the entity known as ‘Leucosa'” that’s why it WILL pass the “Turing Test” and BE Leucosa for as long as the program is running… and can answer any question as if Leucosa herself was being asked the same question… with the added bonus of the Library being able to add in responses that the real Leucosa may not have had access to, but the Library does know, something like her husband getting killed because she died before that was known.
Yup, she’s not just an image of Leucoisa, but she basically is her, now, tink of her as a Spirit Form, because she will learn and she will provide answers as if she was the mortal form (unlike with the hologram of Soupgirl’s mother who is unable to, well, love and grow)
A sentient copy created for a research project. This is both really neat, and really troubling. What happens to Duplicate Leucoisa when Castela’s done here? Does she just get unmade? And will she be completely fine with that? This has been the entire premise of more than one sci-fi novel that ends badly for all involved…
Most likely, the sentient recording is part of the files the Library maintains, amd eLeucoisa was created to answer any questions Castela or Atsali might have.
Another thing to remember is that Castela has more than a bit of guilt about learning the fate of Leucoisa.
I expect she will continue to exist in potentia.
Probably “she” won’t remain active unless someone requests the same information from the library. When deactivated the library will probably retain a record of the interaction so if Castela comes back they will be able to continue this conversation.
Several Star Trek episodes on the holodeck delve into the same consideration.
– See more at: http://www.startrek.com/database_article/ship-in-a-bottle#sthash.MGqZisl5.dpuf
I was thinking specifically of Geordi’s pseudo-relationship with Leah Brahms.
Not to mention the transporter — inconsistently as it’s portrayed in Trek’s rather loose canon.
….loose canon. I see what you did there.
… I totally read her voice in a thick southern tone here…. I don’t know why…
She looks a lot like Eurayle, perhaps?
I thought it might be Eurayle, at first glance.
Then i saw the family resemblance to Atsali.
I was just thinking that…
She does seem to look a lot like Atsali did when she/i> had her hair cut really short🤔
She took a job knowing that it may cost her life and gave her last protecting her charge.
To defend: this is the pact. But when life loses its meaning and is taken for naught, then the pact is to avenge!
I never thought I would see that line from “Heavy Metal”.
I think Castela is more than just a science project to Leucoisa, since she has human genes, too.
I think Leucoisa literally was her mother.
Leucosia wasn’t human.
Castela was a person, i think? Perhaps when the blackthorn started to show indications of sentience and individuality she felt the need to protect it… her..
Leucisa was a para-human.
Leucosia was a Siren.
And Walter was an Incubus
Leucoisaʿs breasts were obviously not as big as Atsaliʾs became overnight when her puberty kicked in 🥴
🤔 Is it possible that Leucosia was ½·human❓
See? Stela was crying from pain and sadness, not anger (well, maybe just a little anger)
I think that the Library is post-singularity, pretty much any way that you would want to define it.
In which case not just Leucoisa, but each and every one of us is there, somewhere in the stacks. Only most of the time no-one is accessing our data. (Unless this life is our data being accessed!)
our brains are a handy, if semi-unreliable form of data archiving…
sorry for the Wall-o-Text, but…
yep, that’s pretty much the text-book definition of what the mundane scientists are still in the dark about what we/they in the Wapsi-verse call “Dark Matter”… the religious aspect calls it the “Akashic Records”
it’s pretty cool that both statements are correct (in the Wapi-verse that is.) , it’s the material record of EVERYTHING that has EVER HAPPENED, happening RIGHT NOW, or WILL EVER happen in the future… and The Library is the way to read that data; that’s why the books are indestructible and come back into existence after they get “destroyed” (or angry thoughts are directed their way)… you are NOT ACTUALLY damaging the ACTUAL DATA, just a”shadow copy” of the data contained within, similar to how Tsillah makes her shadow form that we in the 3D universe interact with, but she is REALLY just the 2D “Shadow on the Wall”… if someone were to “kill” the small humanoid “girl” that we SEE as her, they aren’t REALLY killing HER… just the Shadow of her… same for the books.
as to how that goes here in the Q-Room, well… all the Library has to do is “replay” a portion of the Real Leucosa’s life file, and because it doesn’t have Leucosa’s Soul to give it that “spark of life” it provides the motivational force for it, and uses the DATA from Leucosa as the “A.I. program” that we’re seeing right now, and because it has access to ALL the “data that makes up the entity known as ‘Leucosa'” that’s why it WILL pass the “Turing Test” and BE Leucosa for as long as the program is running… and can answer any question as if Leucosa herself was being asked the same question… with the added bonus of the Library being able to add in responses that the real Leucosa may not have had access to, but the Library does know, something like her husband getting killed because she died before that was known.
Yup, she’s not just an image of Leucoisa, but she basically is her, now, tink of her as a Spirit Form, because she will learn and she will provide answers as if she was the mortal form (unlike with the hologram of Soupgirl’s mother who is unable to, well, love and grow)
COOLNESS! a holodeck image of her Mother (I think)
🤔How did Castela learn about Leucoisa❓
When the Q room mentioned her name: https://wapsisquare.com/comic/do-you-hear-me/