Sophie/Quaker - "Aberrant NoA Reports"
Profile
Category
- Data Downloads
- Subcategory
- Colonist Logs
- Day
- 585
Found as
- Quartz chip
- Depth
- 43 m
- Entries in Colonist Logs
- 45
- Words
- 249
PDA entry
- SOPHIE: Kurultai record, day 585. Consultation with chaplain-psychiatrist Lucretia Kapoor about the state of the NoA. Lucretia, say hello.
- QUAKER: Hello. Would it be appropriate to include Raster and Chap?
- SOPHIE: Before I ask our computer people to fix NoA, I need to know: what is wrong with it?
- QUAKER: With it, or with you?
- SOPHIE: What?
- QUAKER: Has the NoA failed to perform its tasks? Or do you feel that it's asking too much of us?
- SOPHIE: I can't afford to have feelings about anyone's behavior. I'm acting on reports that the NoA is erratic.
- QUAKER: No feelings. Because if you allowed yourself to have feelings, you might disagree with the machine?
- SOPHIE: This is not why I asked you - QUAKER: Of course it is. You use the NoA as a source of certainty in the face of terror. If the NoA can become delusional and mistaken, so can you. And it can.
- SOPHIE: The NoA can become delusional?
- QUAKER: It has no fixed model of reality. It can entertain any madness imaginable and many more you cannot imagine, as long as those delusions help it complete the mission.
- SOPHIE: So the NoA is insane, but only when it's useful?
- QUAKER: Are we any different? Anita has invented an entire belief system to justify the angel comb adaptations. Because they are useful.
- SOPHIE: She's insane too. She's a puppet for the Masefield virus. I can't prove it. But I know it.
- QUAKER: You see? You do have feelings.
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