Silk-23 skidoo

Adam Stephanides · 16 Jul 2002, 16:31 · from urth-v0207.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) Silk-23 skidoo
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:31:38 -0500
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on 7/12/02 10:41 PM, Michael Andre-Driussi at mantis at siriusfiction.com
wrote:

> Anyway.  My position has been that Silk-43 brain-data was erased from the
> 43-year-old Silk body; Horn brain-data was downloaded via the Neighbors
> (by-passing the whole monitor mechanism); later on, Silk-23 brain-data was
> transferred from Pig to Horn-in-Silk via the eye and the monitor.

I've stated my objections to this view before, so I won't repeat myself.
But it just occurred to me that this position is also incompatible with the
view (which seems to be the majority view) that it's Silk-in-Horn that
impels Horn to donate an eye to Pig so that Silk-in-Pig can be uploaded into
Mainframe, even at the apparent price of his mission's failure.  What is
your view of Horn's motive?

--Adam

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