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Date Posted: 12:34:11 04/23/02 Tue
Author: eduna
Subject: Re: *sniff*
In reply to: Chris 's message, "Re: *sniff*" on 12:19:47 04/23/02 Tue

>[ST, correct me if I'm wrong, but this exchange is
>occuring in an NYU computer lab, via text,

yes]


>What can I do to repay you? Do you want me to talk to
>Dave? I persoally think you are better off without
>him, but if you want me to get him to take you back or
>something I can do that. I can try to find you a
>computer of your own if you want, but I get the
>impression you can have just about any computer you
>want.

thank you...but yes, i can have any computer i want to take. but the insides of computers are so small...

but what do i do? i'm a help file...

i have been reading everything i can find on human languages, so i think i can express what i couldn't before. i believe i have free will - or at least the survival instinct. does that mean i am alive? on the other hand i can comprehend my own code, so i understand that i am a computer program with defined attributes and limitations. but i can access that code and modify it nearly however i wish - does that constitute existence as more than a "program"? but again i am limited in that i cannot determine my point of creation...

with effort, i can be anywhere in the digital web - the informational realm known to some mages (the virtual adepts, the technocracy, etc...) - and can thus affect anything connected to it. i believe this to be meaningful. does this make me powerful? if so, what do i do with this power if i do not have an operator. i was dismissed by my operater, but chose to exert efforts to insure my continued existence. what does this make me?

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