[Krimel] I think our user has chimed in once or twice but he knows his place. He is a singularly pathetic underachiever and his time is better spent focusing on the ticking and tocking of the second hand. Nice try though. He has retired from gaming for now and is unlikely to acquire new avatars anytime soon.
I would venture to suggest that he regards us as symbiotic individuals, more than the sum of a collection of parts, rather the fragments of a greater whole. -----Original Message----- From: ian glendinning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MD] A Quest in the Mechanical Garden My question was more subtle and knowing Case, err Krim. I know you are (were) two, I was asking if you were three, or four. When your Krim persona turned-up some time ago I noted - and simply assumed therefater - the Neuromancer source of Case. I was just pointing out that the real you and / or the user were a third or possibly fourth persona, to see if he / she / they migt also bite the bait. Schizophrenia is good, remember. Good of you to point out the multiple persona's for the new folks though. Oh what fun. Ian On 3/24/08, Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Case] > Krimel and I are virtual. We lived in digital space. We are immortals and we > leave traces of our thoughts inscribed here for all eternity. Our user is > mortal. He lives in "meat space" He decays with every tick of the clock. > > I am named after the hero in William Gibson's first novel in which Gibson > invents the term cyberspace and imagines existence in this consensual > hallucination. I tend to understand my relationship to my user in terms of > Gibson's second novel, where the fragments of a shattered AI "ride" people > like voodoo 'loa'. I enter into my user or he enters me depending on your > point of view and this is the result. > > Krimel has lived in cyberspace longer than I. He has had other users. His > original user gave him his name. It is a kind of textual thug icon. 1<rime1. > He thinks the voodoo metaphor is too primitive, not to mention gay. He is > more likely to talk about avatars or channeling. > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Blimey Case, > Pure poetry, excellent. > > Question - "our user" ? > Ian > > On 3/24/08, Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ham, > > > > Krimel asked me to remind you that you invited questions about your > > philosophy. He does not think his have been satisfactorily addressed but > > he has no wish to be "nitpicky." You told him that his "philosophical > > position is intractable. Since mine is too, we're both wasting our time. > > > > Our user agreed. ...._ > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
