noci wrote:
i agree with that point- i've interacted with quite a few individuals who created such semi-independent selves.
Not sure what you mean by semi-independent selves in light of what follows:
i've talked to constructs who were acting on their own behalf. sure, they were once spawned by a physical self, but as soon as they started differentiating between online and offline space, they became semi-independent beings, vaguely disconnected from the parent minds, but still functional, valid characters.
Sounds like we're talking about two different things. You're talking about different self-presentations by one physical being (which I don't see as at all independent of their producer), while I'm talking about self-presentations that aren't (simply) the product of one being (again, self-presentations by robots created as much by programs as by those who utilize these programmed robots for their own uses). --Christian Nelson