But on the syubject of the past NOT being fixed and Terminator, I was reminded of the S.M. Stirling post T2 trilogy that came out several years back. I'm reading through the first book, Infiltrator now. I quite like it.
Here's an excerpt of a memory that Serena Burns, an I-950 (a grown human with cybernetic implants, basically a Borg) recalls of herself communicating with Skynet with regards to her being sent back in time and why:
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She still heard the memories in her mind, the memories of merging with her creator:
There are temporal anomalies. Files show that I became sentient in the year 1997 and began my counterattack against my creators at that time. Files also record that this happened years later and in a different location. There are further instances of… blurring. Some are trivial details. Others are in areas of high priority. Some show that you played an important role in my creation. Others do not list an I-950 unit in times antecedent to this at all.
A part of her consciousness had remained separate even in total linkage; enough to frame a question.
What is happening? If she had been fully individuated, she would have felt disorientation, even fear. Cause-and-effect relationships were the foundation of her worldview.
There is insufficient data for definitive analysis. The highest probability is that there is a… temporal fluctuation involved. Time is malleable but not easily manipulated. It has an… —a complex mathematical formula followed, too esoteric for her to grasp—in verbal terms, it has an inertia. When artificially diverted, it seeks to resume its original path. While matters are in doubt, several alternative world-lines can coexist in a state of quantum superimposition.
Like Schrödinger's cat, she had thought/shared/communicated.
Correct. A ghostly machine analogue of irony tinged the machine's communication: find in answer to the question, which you are about to formulate, it is inherently impossible to say which alternative will become "real." That sector of our world-lines is by its nature inaccessible to us, no matter how we double back through time. It is a… potential.
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on 2009-04-18 11:19 pm (UTC)But on the syubject of the past NOT being fixed and Terminator, I was reminded of the S.M. Stirling post T2 trilogy that came out several years back. I'm reading through the first book, Infiltrator now. I quite like it.
Here's an excerpt of a memory that Serena Burns, an I-950 (a grown human with cybernetic implants, basically a Borg) recalls of herself communicating with Skynet with regards to her being sent back in time and why:
*****
She still heard the memories in her mind, the memories of merging with her creator:
There are temporal anomalies. Files show that I became sentient in the year 1997 and began my counterattack against my creators at that time. Files also record that this happened years later and in a different location. There are further instances of… blurring. Some are trivial details. Others are in areas of high priority. Some show that you played an important role in my creation. Others do not list an I-950 unit in times antecedent to this at all.
A part of her consciousness had remained separate even in total linkage; enough to frame a question.
What is happening? If she had been fully individuated, she would have felt disorientation, even fear. Cause-and-effect relationships were the foundation of her worldview.
There is insufficient data for definitive analysis. The highest probability is that there is a… temporal fluctuation involved. Time is malleable but not easily manipulated. It has an… —a complex mathematical formula followed, too esoteric for her to grasp—in verbal terms, it has an inertia. When artificially diverted, it seeks to resume its original path. While matters are in doubt, several alternative world-lines can coexist in a state of quantum superimposition.
Like Schrödinger's cat, she had thought/shared/communicated.
Correct. A ghostly machine analogue of irony tinged the machine's communication: find in answer to the question, which you are about to formulate, it is inherently impossible to say which alternative will become "real." That sector of our world-lines is by its nature inaccessible to us, no matter how we double back through time. It is a… potential.