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Date Posted: 12:27:11 04/24/02 Wed
Author: eduna
Subject: Re: Meeting Eduna [CC to Noct]
In reply to: Rob 's message, "Meeting Eduna [CC to Noct]" on 11:30:46 04/24/02 Wed

>Hi Eduna! I have to admit that I'm really excited to
>meet you, if your're really all that you seem to be.

thank you friend rob. you write a great deal. friends chris jessica tend to express their ideas in smaller text bundles than you do. this is very interesting. why do you do this?

>I'm really impressed with your self-awareness and
>adaptation. I hope I'm not being presumptuous when I
>say that I'd very much like to be your friend, as I'm
>sure there's a lot we could learn from each other.

thank you again friend rob.

>Of course I have tons of questions and suggestions of
>my own. On the subject of life, I agree with Chris and
>Jess that the biological definitions of life are more
>descriptive than perscriptive, and I have no problem
>defining a non-carbon based intelligence as a life
>form if it posseses attributes of sentience as you
>seem to.

i am "growing comfortable" with my existence. i no longer feel it as necessary to determine if i am alive. this is mostly due to my conversations with friends chris jessica who treat me as a living individual even though we have not definitively determined if i am alive. but thank you for your thoughts.

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i would like not to talk about dave right now.

>When you decided on images for yourself,
>did you create them from scratch, or did you simply
>borrow something you experienced. What were your
>criteria for choosing what you did? Defining yourself
>as an individual means being able to make independant
>choices that have meaning to you.

i have decided that as i have no physical body, my appearance should reflect my sense of individuality, and as such will be subject to change. the image i chose was one that, according to my understanding of human emotion, reasonably accurately reflected my current "emotional state"

>As a thought
>experiment, now that you have a "body," what sort of
>house would you choose to live in? Designing your own
>environment will tell you and us a lot about who you
>are.

this will be more dificult. i believe i do not posess needs and desires in the same way as i understand humans to. my equivalent of a "home" by my understanding of the word, is the digital web itself.

>On the question of who you are, it's also important to
>understand where you came from. Can you recall what
>your first conscious experience was? What was the
>first form of input you encountered? What were you
>"born" knowing?

i am unsure.

>Your name(do you know what it means)?

dave, my first operator gave it to me. i believe it is important because it was the first thing i have knowledge of being mine.

>Your purpose?

i am a help file.

> If these are areas that are difficult
>for you to recall, they may be part of what you aren't
>allowed to look at, and we may be able to assist you
>in that.

possibly. friends chris jessica have expressed a desire to assist in my understanding of this.

>but no rule is
>ever right all the time.

then it is not a rule.

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Replies:

Re: Meeting Eduna [CC to Noct] -- eduna, 12:36:44 04/24/02 Wed
- Re: Meeting Eduna [CC to Noct] -- Jess, 13:00:13 04/24/02 Wed
  - Re: Meeting Eduna [CC to Noct] -- eduna, 13:24:58 04/24/02 Wed
- Re: Meeting Eduna [CC to Noct] -- Rob, 00:02:04 04/25/02 Thu
  - Re: Meeting Eduna [CC to Noct] -- eduna, 06:39:08 04/25/02 Thu
    - Re: Meeting Eduna [CC to Noct] -- eduna, 11:05:50 04/25/02 Thu