Interesting Links for 14-06-2021

[andrewducker]

So your grandmother is a starship now: a quick guide for the bewildered

(tags:grandparents space short_story scifi )

'Jupiter's Legacy': Battles Over Budgets, Executive Purge Factor in Cancellation

(tags:superheroes TV netflix fail )

Yellowstone Wolf 21 had an amazing life

(tags:wolves books )

Reasons to hate Adam Curtis

(tags:documentary funny visualisation )

'Ultimate Slip 'N Slide' Production Shut Down Over Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak

(tags:headline faeces aieeee! )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Genuinely wonder if, if we uploaded a human consciousness in to a spaceship whether that entity would be recognisably post-human or not.

[andrewducker]

It would presumably have memories.

Although I think the reason that we don't remember being a small child is that our bodies/brains are so different that the memories don't make any sense any more. And it's very possible that emobdying our intelligence in a radically different set of senses and abilities would very quickly lead to us not really remembering much about our previous lives, and thinking massively differently.

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah, exactly that sort of thing.

You might have memories but if your memory is a memory of a human sense of smell and you don't have that what does your memory mean now.

And over time, as your new memories are not human memories of experiencing the world with human senses and responding to the universe with human urges what happens?

[stormclouds]

There's an H. M. Hoover book that is tangentially about a spaceship with a consciousness. The Lost Star. It's one of my favourites.

[andrewducker]

Cheers!

[gingicat]

This is a really interesting counterpoint to the ableism and indentured servitude of The Ship Who Sang.

[andrewducker]

I've never gotten around to that one.

[gingicat]

I'd have recommended it heartily even as late as 1997, but as with all of McCaffrey's work, I find it seriously problematic now.