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. And all of them nonsense.) But what I said was:
"Go ahead, dear. Then what?"
"Richard, you don't believe me."
"I thought we settled that. You said that you needed my healthy
skepticism."
"I do! So use it. Criticize! Don't just sit there with that smug look on
your face. This computer had been operating by voice for years-accepting spoken
programs, answering with synthesized speech or printout or both."
"Built-in functions. Techniques two centuries old."
"Why did your face shut down when I said it 'woke up'?"
"Because that's nonsense, my love. Waking and sleeping are functions of
living beings. A machine, no matter how powerful and flexible, does not wake up
or go to sleep. It is power on or power off; that's all."
"All right, let me rephrase it. This computer became self-aware and
acquired free will."
"Interesting. If true. I don't have to believe it. I don't."
"Richard, I refuse to become exasperated. You are simply young and ignorant
and that's not your fault."
"Yes, Grandmaw. I'm young and you're ignorant. Slippery bottom."
'Take your lecherous hands off me and listen. What accounts for
self-awareness in a man?"
"Huh? I have no need to account for it; I experience it."
"True. But it is not a trivial question, sir. Let's treat it like a
boundary problem. Are you self-aware? Am I?"
"Well, I am, monkey face
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