[audio // English]

How do societies maintain civic order where you're from?

...And then, who watches the watchers?

[text]

Certainty and uncertainty can be represented on a 2x2 matrix:

|         
  Known  |  Known  
 Unknown |  Known  
---------|---------
 Unknown | Unknown 
 Unknown |  Known  
         |         Each quadrant represents a category of information. Sorry about the unwieldy terminology; blame the Americans ( Read more... )

An hypothetical for you:

If you were trapped in close quarters with a violent yet ineffectual psychopath, how would you pass the time?

[The Major is alternately ignoring Erol and dragging him where she wants to go.]

There's no reason any of the locked posts we make to the comms have to be susceptible to hacking. The powers that be installed the communications infrastructure in its entirety, physical and software. It's not an emergent system like civilian telecommunications networks. Why provide terminals sufficiently flexible to exploit flaws in your ( Read more... )

[locked from Batou // unhackable]

To what extent is memory reflective of reality? Do you trust your a priori knowledge of consciousness more than the evidence of your senses?

Or, to put it in more relevant terms: If we don't remember an entire day, are we pretending that the day didn't happen, or pretending that it did?Yes, Komaba-san, I know we ( Read more... )

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"Self" is one of the fundamentals of philosophy. Everyone, even the Buddha, agrees that it exists, but the agreement goes no further than that.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

Ophelia to Claudius, in her madness.

Who are you today? Who will you be tomorrow?

How do you know?

Je pense donc je doute.

[Audio // English]

In the Metamorphoses of Ovid, the Sibyl of Cumae is granted a wish by the god Apollo, in exchange for her virginity. She takes up a handful of sand and wishes to live for as many years as the grains of sand she holds. Later, she spurns the god's affections and he denies her eternal youth. The Sibyl wastes away over the years ( Read more... )

[Text]

What are the registry and destination of this vessel?

[Audio // Japanese // Locked to Batou and the Tachikoma // unhackable]

// Batou? //