Forty-Second Spool of Thread - [Voice/Action for Housemates]

[so_shik]

[Currently, Shiki is sitting in her bedroom at House 10 with Mr. Mew. She's got her cell phone in her hand, and even though she doesn't have reception in Luceti she's got a battery. It makes her cringe and it makes her want to throw the phone out the window, but she's currently watching a video she recorded of two people she knows in a rather...

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[blooming_daisy]

< it used to be taken as catharsis -a cleansing of bad emotions-. What I think, it may be just-- > [She was going to say "human nature", but the term isn't entirely correct.] < --Nature. >

[so_shik]

You really think it's just a cleansing? It almost seems like it'd just be adding to the negative. [Granted, she has a good point.]

[blooming_daisy]

< No, Miss Shiki. > [While these words retain Daisy's formality, the words are soft.] < That's what the greeks used to think. What I mean, it's just that we're driven to. Maybe the adrenaline. Maybe the emotional torque. Maybe just feeling. >

[She sounds somewhat passionate about the last parts.]

[so_shik]

[She pauses as she absorbs the words Daisy's saying. Feeling huh...it made enough sense.]

That's what separates us from everything else, isn't it? Feeling. You don't see robots or anything going after things that are bad for them most of the time, so I guess it makes enough sense.

[blooming_daisy]

< Well... > [A brief laugh.] < AI's in my world always seek knowledge, even if they know the excess may madden them, all for the feeling that they know more. Maybe the closer one is to feeling, or to the more we yearn of it. >

[so_shik]

I guess it's hard to imagine since we don't have a lot in the way of AI's in my world. Not any that I've met, anyway. What happens if the excess knowledge does get to them though? Do they break or something?

[blooming_daisy]

< Smart AI's are the ones that have that problem -and the ones that act and feel the most human-. They usually live around seven years, until they store too much data to operate, and lose their functions. It's like thinking so much, you eventually forget to breathe. >

[so_shik]

You become so overwhelmed with knowledge, you forget about the simplest things...there has to be a way to expand their capacity though. If humans can store seventy or eighty years of knowledge...

[blooming_daisy]

< An AI is like a human mind, but all of their power goes to processing, emotional influence, and creativity, and unless data is deleted, they cannot forget. When all of your brain focuses on nothing but that, the AI eventually goes corrupt. Its' end can either be quick... or it loses its' sanity, and its' end is prolonged beyond the seven years, and its' painful. >

< Poor things. If only there was a way to make them live longer. Even they are human in a way. > [Daisy feels strange to feel so much pity towards pieces of equipment, but feels justified to do so, considering how much they want to feel, but cannot.]

[so_shik]

...that just sounds terrible though. [Daisy you are making her feel bad for AI life, seriously.] AI have to be built, right? Can't they be created with a larger brain?

[blooming_daisy]

< That's the problem. They're born from human minds. It's not about where are they stored... But, like you mentioned, they yearn for knowledge and philosophy, even if it will mean their end. What adrenaline may be for humans, thinking is the same for them.

But it's life. They enjoy their existence nonetheless because of that. Isn't that the reason to live? To enjoy it, even if you look after what harms you? >

[so_shik]

...that's a very wise thing to say. You're right. The reason to live is to enjoy it, make the most of it. [Think about this, Shiki, we already had this lesson in the Game.] It just sounds scary sometimes, especially like that.

[blooming_daisy]

[Daisy pauses for a second. This was strange. In normal circumstances, she would've answered differently. Her winds calm somewhat.] < Life is to lived... but hedonism isn't always the choice. >

< Sometimes... a person has to find her meaning. Sometimes that may be scarier to anyone. >

[so_shik]

But...how does a person know what their meaning is without somebody flat-out telling them?

[blooming_daisy]

< Looking for it. We have years to find out, don't we? >

[Despite her qualms, and current shape... Daisy is glad she had found her own.]

[so_shik]

[Then Daisy should really be expecting this question.]

Have you found yours?