Quote: M Fnord wrote:Thanks, Fnord, that pretty much answers my questions. Now, forgive me while I shoot off on a tangent here...
Quote: The one thing I wonder about is how they just came to terms with their existence right off the bat with no confusion whatsoever and very littleGoing through the AI character stable, the vast majority of AIs are aware enough to know that they aren't "really" the characters
disorientation. For example, while I've never really stated so, Gina's last memories are those of Asuka just as the Production Series Evas start
tearing her apart (hence her state of mind when she awakened). She was pretty damn confused and didn't know what to make of things, but she eventually
adapted.
they're based on. This is one of those things where Gina is, if not unique, then at least a rarity. And for an AI, a couple hundred milliseconds can be a
long enough time to have & then get over an existential crisis.
Gina has pretty much been writing herself from the get-go in my head and I've been trying to figure her out much how a therapist puts someone on the couch
(as much as you can do with someone with Asuka's mindset, anyways).
As to why she's so unique... Well, I'm not sure myself. *Pokes at Gina mock-experimentally and nearly loses a finger in the process*
If I had to pick something off the top of my head, I'd just say that it was because when Benjamin truly works on a project, he does so with such a serious
case of Tunnel Vision that he rivals The Professor in that aspect. A piano could come crashing down behind his head and he wouldn't notice (well, maybe
not but you get the idea). Therefore, when he was working on his write-up concerning Asuka, the Handwavium took that into account and went completely
overboard, making her memories seem so real that when she manifested she was convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that she really was Asuka. Though some might
think that she was actually pulled from a transfictional universe, but we'll never know for sure.
This can be attributed to her feeling more 'human' than most other AI's do. She's certainly very emotional as AI's go, even with
Handwavium factored in. The only AIs I know of that are capable of expressing their emotions as much as she does (IMHO) are Noah's girls and The
Professor's, and they all have physical bodies.
From what I have seen in Fenspace so far, it is my humble opinion that an AI can reach a certain level of 'humanity' at which they simply must have a
physical body so they can really be like one of us - call it the Little Mermaid complex if you will. Others like Dee differ in some pretty obvious ways, of
course, and then there are others that are normal enough but think little of having a human form (not too many of these running around when you stop to think
about it).