SquaredBowl wrote:
I don't really retain memories of my dreams that well but the feelings were like I didn't quite know how it happened and wasn't really happy or sad... just kind of a surreal acceptance.
I get that a lot. I'll be in the dream, thinking "well I'm driving a giant whale-mobile and dinosaurs are attacking. This seems a little odd, but ok." And then wake up and be like "what the hell?" I've always found it odd that our brains, presumably using many of the same structures that we rely on in everyday life, are able to accept the reality of dreams so easily. I suppose it could be taken as a sign that our brain functions are more autonomous than we think, and we're capable of reacting in more-or-less normal ways without actual self-consciousness. Which bring to mind Julian Jayne's probably incorrect but interesting ideas about the bicameral
mind, and now I'm getting way off-topic...
To me it sounds like it might make for a better short story universe than an RP, but who knows? If you start it I'll probably join in. As a rogue disembodied sentient AI, since if you
have sentient AI it seems like bullshits to confine it to human-like forms for any reasons other than (as you imply) "cultural" ones.
What are the practical differences between the humanoid robots and actual humans? Even though they look like us, do they have extra strength/durability, the ability to jack into the global communication network Ghost in the Shell-style, etc? I would assume that they also have increased processing power/intelligence, which makes their rather primitive ideas about physical forms all the more puzzling. Could this just be taking place within a semi-isolated sect of the larger machine society; a future version of the Amish, if you will?
EDIT: I call dibs on "Xerxes" if I do this. :)