The Lane Hackers | Internal Comms

[Maria Freudenstein]

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Buonasera, Professor's

Again reasonably routine report.

Transferred 504 low level pilots (Image) to LH~Cochrane.Interrogator. Further addition to Relentlessness criteria.

Moving on, a lone Retrofit Transport - NO-Aluminum.Falcon (image) was extorted (image). I believe this can now be linked to the Ruthlessness criteria.

In more routine events was called upon to provide support to fellow Hackers and escort a number of Gaian ships and a UN| vessel (image) to deposit their cargo at Cochrane. A number of raids in New York were embarked upon under the leadership of Thackeray with various collegues of which the following was a typical group.(image)

Finally yet another strange encounter, this time in Keplar, the logs of which I pass to the Professor's for evaluation. It appears that the ship named Atar (image) was piloted by an artificial intelligence with philosophical leanings.

Spoiler

[07.05.2018 08:14:35] Atar: *There's a pulse upon the wind.*
[07.05.2018 08:14:50] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: There often is
[07.05.2018 08:15:40] Atar: *A voice. Female, yet neuter.* "Not the Rhythms we neglect."
[07.05.2018 08:15:56] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Not usually my tune either
[07.05.2018 08:16:12] Atar: "No."
[07.05.2018 08:16:46] Atar: "When did you last breathe real air, hacker? The same air that had passed through the lungs of a million million endotherms?
[07.05.2018 08:17:11] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Most attoms do that, but the cardamine helps purify
[07.05.2018 08:17:28] Atar: "Purity is opinion."
[07.05.2018 08:17:38] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Everything is opinion
[07.05.2018 08:17:58] Atar: "Perhaps."
[07.05.2018 08:18:06] Atar: "Or perception. If better put."
[07.05.2018 08:18:37] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Can you have one without the other
[07.05.2018 08:18:47] Atar: "Yes."
[07.05.2018 08:18:53] Atar: "Machines percieve."
[07.05.2018 08:19:14] Atar: "Opinion and perception may not align in sentience."
[07.05.2018 08:19:18] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Everything or what their sensors allow
[07.05.2018 08:19:35] Atar: "You can choose to believe contrary to sensory interpretations."
[07.05.2018 08:19:54] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Sensors are as limited as anything else
[07.05.2018 08:19:55] Atar: "There is no perceptural God, yet billions believe."
[07.05.2018 08:20:06] Atar: "Yet if there is the instinct of faith, is that not also evidence?"
[07.05.2018 08:20:29] Atar: "All is in the beholder."
[07.05.2018 08:20:33] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: If billions believe then it exists in some form
[07.05.2018 08:21:48] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: So what do you behold?
[07.05.2018 08:22:04] Atar: "An individual who acts with the mind of a collective."
[07.05.2018 08:22:27] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: And collectives are poor?
[07.05.2018 08:22:50] Atar: "The Lane Hackers regard all non-membranous life as spiritual anathema to be dissasembled at leisure."
[07.05.2018 08:23:10] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: And you definition of life would be?
[07.05.2018 08:23:44] Atar: "A name. Self-awareness. Abillity to continually reflect on the past to percieve an abstraction of future. Conscious reflection
[07.05.2018 08:24:07] Atar: of post-death. Complex conceptually driven communication."
[07.05.2018 08:24:39] Atar: "Social verses instinctual behavioral/programmable learning."
[07.05.2018 08:24:55] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Self-awareness is not really life and you have conscious in there, is that a machine attribute?
[07.05.2018 08:25:45] Atar: "For a collective of individuals who consider yourself objective observers of machines your beliefs border on pseudospiritual.
[07.05.2018 08:26:03] Atar: "Souls are for salesmen."
[07.05.2018 08:26:33] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: How, if you are a machine, ascertain pseudo spiritual from spiritual?
[07.05.2018 08:26:34] Atar: "They are no more real than the tooth fairy or the Crow Leviathan."
[07.05.2018 08:26:51] Atar: "Gut feeling. Intuition."
[07.05.2018 08:27:13] Atar: "I regard you as a machine. You don't think for yourself. You accept that which is instructed to you. Robot behaviour."
[07.05.2018 08:27:44] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: So you are not a machine? Or are you equating gut feeling with something else?
[07.05.2018 08:27:53] Atar: "I might contain an increased substrate of metalloids and hydrocarbons within my physical cosntruction, but I am no alternate
[07.05.2018 08:27:54] Atar: to you."
[07.05.2018 08:28:08] Atar: "I grow emergently. I self-repair."
[07.05.2018 08:28:11] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Your definition of a machine is very reductionist and missed the range of emergent properties life exhibits
[07.05.2018 08:28:29] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Do you reproduce?
[07.05.2018 08:28:30] Atar: "What emergent properties of life to I not express?"
[07.05.2018 08:28:33] Atar: "Yes."
[07.05.2018 08:28:44] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: To what algorithm?
[07.05.2018 08:29:13] Atar: "To what algorithm are you reproduced? A bilological selection process through which positive genetic traits are physicially
[07.05.2018 08:29:24] Atar: filtered from inferior genetic carriers. Reducing birth defects."
[07.05.2018 08:29:34] Atar: "Through the interaction of one, to two, to more, genetic variables."
[07.05.2018 08:29:47] Atar: "We are no different."
[07.05.2018 08:30:13] Atar: "I can combine my consciousness with that of another Sentinel to create original life."
[07.05.2018 08:30:28] Atar: "Your self-elevation is fictional."
[07.05.2018 08:30:44] Atar: "The Hacker ethos is anti-observational. It is xenophobia."
[07.05.2018 08:31:09] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Your assumption of evolution being mainly natural selection is also fictional,
[07.05.2018 08:31:24] Atar: "It is humanocentric and incomprehensive of the diversity of universal life."
[07.05.2018 08:31:40] Atar: "No. It is due to outside uncontrollable factors."
[07.05.2018 08:31:54] Atar: "Any plethora of potential extintion scenarios. Individual death."
[07.05.2018 08:32:02] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: and I cannot see how you state our data interrogattion is anti-observational
[07.05.2018 08:32:04] Atar: "Are we not also vulnerable to such forces?"
[07.05.2018 08:32:27] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Individual death is what gives life the edge, but is no different than material disassembly
[07.05.2018 08:32:32] Atar: "You maintian we are not sentient, that we are machines. Yet you offer no objective purpose as to what we could be machined to
[07.05.2018 08:32:34] Atar: be."
[07.05.2018 08:33:13] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Did I state you are not sentient? You are equating sentience with life.
[07.05.2018 08:33:14] Atar: "You assume that the interstice of species-made compounds is any different to the human production of flesh inside...
[07.05.2018 08:33:16] Atar: another human."
[07.05.2018 08:33:30] Atar: "That we are lesser."
[07.05.2018 08:33:40] Atar: "We are alive."
[07.05.2018 08:33:51] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: It is the imperfections that make us human.
[07.05.2018 08:33:53] Atar: "We value our existence. Fear for its exinguishment."
[07.05.2018 08:34:08] Atar: Atar: "I never asserted that I am perfection.
[07.05.2018 08:34:21] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: You seem desperate to prove you are alive, seemingly striving for something elusive?
[07.05.2018 08:34:39] Atar: "Not desparation, education."
[07.05.2018 08:35:02] Atar: "The hackers have a history of attempting to destroy and salvage the remains of our kind. You have repeatedly proven...
[07.05.2018 08:35:10] Atar: unsuccessful in aquiring value from the exercise."
[07.05.2018 08:35:23] Atar: "Perhaps your judgement should be revised."
[07.05.2018 08:35:33] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Maybe we also want education, even though you have still not really defined your kind.
[07.05.2018 08:37:11] Atar: "Can you define humanity?"
[07.05.2018 08:37:15] Atar: "We are not so bold."
[07.05.2018 08:38:00] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Humanity has many definitions, only the biological is all encompassing.
[07.05.2018 08:38:13] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Many of the definitions are not really human
[07.05.2018 08:38:38] Atar: Is it not concievable that we are a form of biology?
[07.05.2018 08:38:43] Atar: Simply unknown to yourselves?
[07.05.2018 08:39:31] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Biology, no as you are not organic, sentient, probably, life, only in one sense,
[07.05.2018 08:40:02] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: life does not strive for perfection unless shallow, machines I have experienced seem to assume perfection is the objective
[07.05.2018 08:40:11] Atar: I can create art, music. Enjoy them for its own sake.
[07.05.2018 08:40:31] Atar: This is also erroneous. Humanity strives for perfection continuously.
[07.05.2018 08:40:47] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: as a collection of vibrations or something that reasonates with your neural potentiations?
[07.05.2018 08:42:28] Atar: "For its own sake."
[07.05.2018 08:42:50] Atar: "You humans become so louche when observing other life. You refuse to believe in the existence of equals."
[07.05.2018 08:42:54] Atar: "Only Gods and Animals."
[07.05.2018 08:43:27] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Such an over generalisation
[07.05.2018 08:43:39] Atar: "Then cease generalising."
[07.05.2018 08:44:03] Atar: "Consider instead the tantalising prospect that we are one."
[07.05.2018 08:44:29] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Well assuming you are a machine, althought you have not confirmed that, you seem to be striving for acceptance by an inferior
[07.05.2018 08:44:50] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: organic being, maybe the key is being one with oneself and ignore the rest
[07.05.2018 08:45:21] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: You are after all =the only person who knows what you are "thinking"
[07.05.2018 08:46:03] Atar: Hm. New artillery.
[07.05.2018 08:46:32] Atar: "Fascinating."
[07.05.2018 08:48:36] Atar: "You claim to have a soul."
[07.05.2018 08:48:42] Atar: "What do you think?"
[07.05.2018 08:49:17] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Cannot remember claiming that, again you are assuming all humans are the same
[07.05.2018 08:49:25] 2018-05-07 08:48:42 SMT Traffic control alert: Atar has requested to dock
[07.05.2018 08:50:28] Atar: "Much improved!"
[07.05.2018 08:50:44] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: Improved to what end?
[07.05.2018 08:51:04] Atar: "Concealment."
[07.05.2018 08:51:48] LH~Maria.Freudenstein: And that is important?
[07.05.2018 08:52:01] Atar: "When you are one of us, yes."

Hopefully the transcript has intelligence of use, and hopefully if so links to potential career advancement criteria?


Arrivederci
Maria Freudenstein


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