Hello OliveGuineafowl,
Read this clever piece awhile ago, forgot to leave timely comment but here goes on the last day to rate. (BTW, I forget what time or zone, is it midnight EDST?) Your fantasy essay is charming and I get much of the allusions and name-drops, such as in the clever fictional references. Props for creativity and boldness. Yet I can't put together a point that it's all driving to (although maybe it isn't meant to in that conventional sense.) Would appreciate some more explanation. Also would you (and anyone reading this) please take a look at my essay too, which attempts to disprove AI reductionism about minds. I use both a philosophical argument about existential knowledge (a sort of update of Descartes famous experiment) plus inferences from quantum mechanics. Thanks, and rem. again: this is the last day to rate essays!