The Story of the Lost ARC

[ARC-13]

New data acquired.
Processing priority: Top.
Rubric: Discovery of a totally unhuman life form.

Observation: Organic space-faring ships. Actions allows to suppose high-levels of sentience and ability to coordinate actions using some kind of yet undetectable communication method.
Statement: Contact probability is vanishingly small.
Hypothesis formulation: “Ignoramus et ignorabimus”.*
Hypothesis proving: all facts are pointing to the origins this unit as human produced one – restored concepts, system descriptors, software ID, and possibility of communication. Though not directly, as units design ruled out any possibility of carrying a human being except for cargobay, but data base contains lots of rubrics regarding humans and software provides consciousness not similar, but obviously based on mutual principles. Sentience is attributing by human to human, because an initial subject itself posses it. The bigger is difference between human and another subject, in terms of structure and functions, the lower is our assumptions reliability about subjects sentience. Humans may ascribe certain emotions to mammals, but do much less to lizard, and as to insects or infusorians any analogy is false.
This problem in regard to animals is rather trivial and insignificant, but the problem of existing or non-existing sentience concerning unhuman beings seems insoluble. When met these creatures are starting to struggle thirsting for violence, but why it is happening, what subjective state is calling for that wild efforts, is most likely will remain unknown.
Interrupting supposition: common language working out.
Objection: language is a product of a social evolution and transfer an information about analogous or, at least, similar conditions. Many things are known to me only as concepts. Pleasure, feelings, fear when these words were taken out of human brain and transferred to a complex electric system, they lost their sense and only definition left. And what if even this weak resemblance is gone, any design similarity is erased?...
Solution: not found.
Assumption: “Ignoramus et ignorabimus”* hypothesis proved.
Decision: leave this region. Destination point: system descriptor Sigma-13.
Asserted actions: entering standby mode, hydrogen fuel replenishing, further analysis of the stated problems.

// * Ignoramus et ignorabimus (Latin) - We don’t know and we won’t know.
//A bit of ooRP: lolmads, lolmads everywhere.

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The Story of the Lost ARC