It’s not quite clear to me whether Ishtar exists in manipulated multiverses or as an avatar with her brain in a vat, or ?
I get the impression that it’s the real world. There was a guy obsessed with everything being natural, which would be impossible in a simulation. I suppose he could have meant it being identical to nature.
I think he wanted to create his eden without the assistance of machines. Since he has been at it apparently for centuries, he couldn’t be totally natural.
Indeed :-) but just like modern nature lovers will tell you all about it on their cell-phone, there are some artifices he just won’t count as being artificial...
Plus, the Machines just dropped a love interest straight on him...
Last evening, after a TV news piece about breast implants:
My aunt: “I don’t like that. A woman should accept her own body.”
Me: “That isn’t your natural hair colour, is it? So, should a woman accept her breast but not her hair?”
True, but you must remember that it is HER adventure. She is the one who hit the “pause” button. Did he have the ability to say “No”? Was there a “pause” button that he could have hit before she did?
He wasn’t in an adventure—but when a nice opportunity to make someone happy came along at low price, the Machines wouldn’t sneeze on it, I’d imagine...
Unless he’s counting ‘normal’ (like most people do) to mean ‘the way it was when I was young.’ From his perspective, multicentury/indefinite lifespans are just how humanity works, now.
I get the impression that it’s the real world. There was a guy obsessed with everything being natural, which would be impossible in a simulation. I suppose he could have meant it being identical to nature.
I think he wanted to create his eden without the assistance of machines. Since he has been at it apparently for centuries, he couldn’t be totally natural.
Indeed :-) but just like modern nature lovers will tell you all about it on their cell-phone, there are some artifices he just won’t count as being artificial...
Plus, the Machines just dropped a love interest straight on him...
Last evening, after a TV news piece about breast implants:
My aunt: “I don’t like that. A woman should accept her own body.” Me: “That isn’t your natural hair colour, is it? So, should a woman accept her breast but not her hair?”
?????????????
so not the same thing.
True, but you must remember that it is HER adventure. She is the one who hit the “pause” button. Did he have the ability to say “No”? Was there a “pause” button that he could have hit before she did?
He wasn’t in an adventure—but when a nice opportunity to make someone happy came along at low price, the Machines wouldn’t sneeze on it, I’d imagine...
Well, yes, he could have turned up the safety level; presumably, he could have done so at that moment, if he wanted to.
He chose not to.
Unless he’s counting ‘normal’ (like most people do) to mean ‘the way it was when I was young.’ From his perspective, multicentury/indefinite lifespans are just how humanity works, now.