Interesting, I’ve occasionally experimented with something similar but never thought of contacting Autopilot this way. Yeah, that’s what I’ll call him.
I get the feeling that this might be useful in breaking out of some of my procrastination patterns: just call Autopilot and tell him which routine to start. Not tested yet, as then I’d forget about writing this reply.
It’s as if your own body is a guy that does his job if you train him right, but makes stupid decisions when something unexpected happens. I just take a more literal approach with the interaction. I also refer to him as “my answering machine” when I am woken up in the middle of the night. It took my wife a while to realize that the person she was talking to was “not me”. My answering machine can make perfectly normal-sounding replies to normal questions, but is unable to come up with creative answers to unusual questions, and I have no memory of the events. Another unnamed, possibly separate module runs when my body is alarmed, but I am not yet conscious. It constantly asks for data, verbally questioning other humans nearby, “What is happening? What is going on? What time is it?” Unlike situations with the answering machine, I retain conscious memory of the occurrence, but not from a first-person perspective, more like I remember somebody telling me about what happened, but in this case that person was (allegedly) me.
Interesting, I’ve occasionally experimented with something similar but never thought of contacting Autopilot this way. Yeah, that’s what I’ll call him.
I get the feeling that this might be useful in breaking out of some of my procrastination patterns: just call Autopilot and tell him which routine to start. Not tested yet, as then I’d forget about writing this reply.
It’s as if your own body is a guy that does his job if you train him right, but makes stupid decisions when something unexpected happens. I just take a more literal approach with the interaction. I also refer to him as “my answering machine” when I am woken up in the middle of the night. It took my wife a while to realize that the person she was talking to was “not me”. My answering machine can make perfectly normal-sounding replies to normal questions, but is unable to come up with creative answers to unusual questions, and I have no memory of the events. Another unnamed, possibly separate module runs when my body is alarmed, but I am not yet conscious. It constantly asks for data, verbally questioning other humans nearby, “What is happening? What is going on? What time is it?” Unlike situations with the answering machine, I retain conscious memory of the occurrence, but not from a first-person perspective, more like I remember somebody telling me about what happened, but in this case that person was (allegedly) me.