Question.

[the_grynne]

What kind of sense of self does Skynet have?

Specifically: Is Skynet indifferent to which version of It exists in the dominant timeline?

Comments

[so_spiffed]

Stop editing your posts right after I read them! Even though, you know, I do that too...

If it's physically the same, it's me. I mean, if I lose all of my memories tomorrow, are you going to try telling me I'm not me? No! You can't! Because I won't remember who you are and just brush you off as some crazy person! *cough*

Aaanyway...

I don't see why it should care if it alters the path of its own creation as long as it gets created. Since, in this new age of Terminator, it seems that an alternate timeline is created each time you alter something, I also don't see why it should really matter, either. You're guaranteed a win in one of the lines at some point.

Or maybe some part of Skynet is like a pin, and all the other threads just wind around it at some point before going of in their own directions again.

And maybe, just maybe, I have NO IDEA what I'm talking about. Yeah. I think that's it.

*spams*

[the_grynne]

Or maybe some part of Skynet is like a pin, and all the other threads just wind around it at some point before going of in their own directions again.

Like Sarah Connor is the egg that gave rise to John Connor - and none of the rest manner ultimately, just her. (Like liminalliz, I'm starting to think that the earliest John Connor wasn't Kyle Reese's son at all.)

[so_spiffed]

Great. Now all I can see is a Sarah Connor pin, and a Skynet pin, and this figure of ∞ winding around 'em both.

I'm going to dream of pins and string and terminators. I know it. *sigh*

[rodlox]

if it weren't for the fact that you're smarter than me, I'd wonder if we were sharing a brain --

I wondered today (out on a long walk) if, in the original timeline, Skynet was unable to find out who the parents of archfoe John Connor were...so it assembled a list of canidates, and sent back Terminators -
the first Terminator went up against T1's Sarah Connor...

and the feedback loop was born. he may be a different John Connor in the loop than prior to the loop, but the loop Connor is almost designed for the fight against Skynet.

(and all that, from thinking how common a name "Sarah" and "John Connor" are)

[the_grynne]

and all that, from thinking how common a name "Sarah" and "John Connor" are

Haha. That's true.

*imagines some other Sarah Connor, mother of a different John Connor, leader of the resistance*

[rodlox]

and Skynet's intelligence is only as good as the resources which survive Judgement Day.

so if the files on Sarah Connor don't make it...

[the_grynne]

I just had to add that little nod at you. I've had that thought experiment come up in philosophy tutes, and your intuition is actually quite an uncommon one.

[so_spiffed]

What? Seriously? But...? Oh, hell. I'll just be over here. On my own. *sits in her corner*