Thus, the Murderbot Diaries raises questions about how we define human consciousness versus artificial consciousness. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do.” It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here.
“It’s wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. Most of the philosophical discussion on the possibility of strong AI has focused on robots such as ART.Ĭonstructs such as Murderbot are artificially created out of both non-organic and cloned organic material and also known as “Imitative Human Bot Units.” For instance, Murderbot’s brain is composed out of both organic and non-organic matter. Robots such as ART are also fairly self-obvious they are the quintessential AI, built out of non-organic matter such as silicon. Humans such as Mensah are self-obvious in their definition augmented humans are humans with some level of artificial body parts that may give them heightened abilities compared to standard humans. The Murderbot Diaries series has three main categories of intelligence: humans and augmented humans, robots, and constructs.
Forms of Intelligence in The Murderbot Diaries Along the way, it meets ART, a powerfully intelligent transport/research lab AI who decides to befriend Murderbot. Artificial Condition sees Murderbot posing as a human to investigate its past. She tells Murderbot that it can come home with her, to a system where constructs and higher-level bots have rights. In the end of All Systems Red, Murderbot has saved the day and Mensah, the leader of the survey team who knows its technically gone rogue, buys out its contract. Even though these humans insist on treating Murderbot like a person (which is very anxiety-inducing for poor Murderbot), Murderbot isn’t about to let anything kill them. Then someone starts trying to kill the human survey team it’s under contract to. Murderbot hacked its governor module and gained autonomy over its own actions, but instead of going on a rampage and killing all humans, it half-way does its job while secretly consuming media. The philosophical writings of Dennett are also a useful tool for understanding how the series presents consciousness. All Systems Red and Artificial Condition by Martha Wells are the first two novellas in the Murderbot Diaries series, which follows a human-robot construct that refers to itself as “Murderbot.” Consciousness in the Murderbot Diaries can best be understood as a spectrum and something that arises with intelligence.
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