It’s alive! Or at least, animated.
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Gnosis Transformations: Chapter Six, Page Three written and commissioned by Dr. Faustus of EroticMadScience.com and drawn by Lon Ryden is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.)
If she isn’t alive, why did she say she “pops into conciousness”?
I might not properly understand the question, but I’ll attempt an answer. Its antecedent clause “If she isn’t alive” is perhaps the confusing part. The majority (though not the unanimous) view among philosophers of mind appears to be that mental states are substrate independent, and if this view is correct than a property like “being conscious” doesn’t depend on “being alive,” if by “being alive one means “being a (living) organism of the sort studied by biologists.” (Some philosophers go further — Galen Strawson has famously defended a version of panpsychism on which every physical thing has some sort of rudimentary consciousness). The implication on any of these views is that, in principle at least, a computer could just as readily be conscious as a human being could.
That said, I don’t think the notion of “popped into” consciousness should seem all that strange. Consider: presumably you are conscious at the moment you are reading these words. At some point in the historical past, you were not conscious. Presumably you weren’t conscious before you were conceived, for example. So at some time, some how, you made a transition from being not conscious to being conscious. But if you’re like almost everyone I know, that moment is hazy. You don’t remember the day or the hour or probably even the year when you “woke up” and began being conscious. (Try it as an exercise: when do you remember being conscious? What age were you? Two? Three? Six? What is the first thing you thought about? What is the first thing you saw when you first became conscious?)
For Xenobia, such matters are not hazy. The beginning of her consciousness is the beginning of her autobiography, were she to write one. She could actually answer what the first thing she saw was, and tell you, down to the second, when that happened. Hence “popped in.”
Ok, that will satisfy for now, but Taylor better be able to draw a naked woman as good as Lon can.
Ok, that will satisfy for now, but Taylor better be able to draw a naked woman as good as Lon can. This is starting to remind me of when Bill Keane’s “Family Circus” gets drawn by “Billy”.
Panel 1 – Holy Batmobile, Professors!
Indeed, that’s the general aesthetic Lon and I were aiming for here.