Hm ... this SUPER WEIRD FISSION STUFF actually kind of mirrors our experience, too. ^^;
You know how in Persona 4 the protagonists confront their "shadows," which is a term taken from Jungian psychology for the parts of your personality that are repressed? Living in a super-repressive society does that to you. It's not the only way someone can become a plurality, not even close. But I think that it widened natural fault lines, so to speak ... and so, getting in touch with "my" anger over boundary violations (and other unacceptable emotions) involved literally having to relate to a different person.
I wonder if maybe one way it happens to AIs is when they divide their attention too much? Like, they might become super-invested in two different places, or partners, or causes. And then they realize their thoughts are becoming partitioned, and since they don't have to share a headspace they can just amicably part ways.
To anyone who interacted with them, it might not seem too different, because they were already living a double life. It might prompt some introspection, though, both before and afterwards, and each new AI might seem to have more exaggerated personality traits at first.
Actually going through this might be less like being pregnant, and more like the process I / we went through. When you realize that you are more than one person at once, either gradually or all of a sudden (which was frightening). And start having to figure out how to relate to each other and the outside world.
It's the kind of story I would really like to see, because there's almost no fiction out there that handles this well and that portrays people like me / us as anything but a monster or curiosity. ^^;
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You know how in Persona 4 the protagonists confront their "shadows," which is a term taken from Jungian psychology for the parts of your personality that are repressed? Living in a super-repressive society does that to you. It's not the only way someone can become a plurality, not even close. But I think that it widened natural fault lines, so to speak ... and so, getting in touch with "my" anger over boundary violations (and other unacceptable emotions) involved literally having to relate to a different person.
I wonder if maybe one way it happens to AIs is when they divide their attention too much? Like, they might become super-invested in two different places, or partners, or causes. And then they realize their thoughts are becoming partitioned, and since they don't have to share a headspace they can just amicably part ways.
To anyone who interacted with them, it might not seem too different, because they were already living a double life. It might prompt some introspection, though, both before and afterwards, and each new AI might seem to have more exaggerated personality traits at first.
Actually going through this might be less like being pregnant, and more like the process I / we went through. When you realize that you are more than one person at once, either gradually or all of a sudden (which was frightening). And start having to figure out how to relate to each other and the outside world.
It's the kind of story I would really like to see, because there's almost no fiction out there that handles this well and that portrays people like me / us as anything but a monster or curiosity. ^^;