Self-Aware Machines
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| Self-Aware Machines | |
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| Requires | N-Space Compression, Digital Sentience |
| Leads to | Matter Editation, Singularity Mechanics |
| Facility | Nessus Mining Station, Orbital Defense Pod |
| Secret Project | The Self-Aware Colony, The Nethack Terminus |
| Improves Probe Team morale | |
Without sensibility no object would be given to us, without
understanding no object would be thought. Thoughts without content
are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
- —Immanuel Kant,
- “Critique of Pure Reason”, Datalinks
- —Immanuel Kant,
I swear sometimes they’re watching me.
- —Bozon Pete, Shift Foreman,
- Metagenics Biomachinery Division
- —Bozon Pete, Shift Foreman,
Following the advent of Digital Sentience, computers have only one great leap left: the evolution to Self-Aware Machines. Advances in N-Space Compression provide the storage capacity needed for this technology. These machines are capable of complex, higher-order thinking, and value the experience of existence as much as any biological being. As with other living organisms, self-preservation is paramount for these specimens.
