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B was responsible for disarming a self destruct aboard the USS Phoenix while she was at the other end of a way corridor at Odyssey Station. | B was responsible for disarming a self destruct aboard the USS Phoenix while she was at the other end of a way corridor at Odyssey Station. | ||
===Engineering Specifications=== | |||
====Extract from Lt. Jg. [[Kevin Breeman]]'s research==== | |||
The implementation of artificial consciousness is not a new field, nor is the antiquated conception of consciousness as an epiphenomenon stemming from stochastic processes. However, I should like to point out that 8 and B, my two test subjects, were in fact phenomena which arose out of a chain of mishaps aboard the vessel on which I serve. | |||
During a mission to Science Station 7623, an avian engineering cadet's anti-radiation inoculation apparently compromised her perception of reality to the point that she believed that a nanite culture which I had deployed in order to seal sensitive sections of our vessel against the region's extonic radiation was in fact part of a subversive plot. She thus proceeded to reprogram some of the nanites in order to stop this plot and was subsequently incapacitated while medical investigated her condition. | |||
Before my return from an away mission, numerous patrol and managerial units of the nanite colonies began to send control signals at pseudo-random intervals. Several main control nodes in the colonies then started to develop more advanced fuzzy logic circuits. Finally a standard 2-army solution executed in colonies A22 and A23 in an A subs grid control group, at which point a cascade reaction occurred giving rise to a gestalt-like self awareness in both colonies. Emergence of homunculi proceeded apace to the point that both A22 and A23 were galvanizing nanites to become part of physical superstructures, or bodies. | |||
The 2-army solution acted as a kind of chaotic attractor, causing the systems of nanites under the control of A22 and A23 to coalesce into coherent states. These states follow a fractal pattern, in that they implement goal directed behaviour which, at its core, is motivated by a recapitulation of the themes of individual nanite programming: | |||
Preserve the self. Do no harm to living entities. | |||
However, this goal-directed behaviour has been seen to waver. For example, B was responsible for assisting myself during a recent away mission, in spite of danger to himself. | |||
Whether or not 8 and B are themselves aware that they are implementing recapitulated nanite programming is unclear. Indeed, the two may be akin to adolescent humans unaware of the functions of their rapid bodily changes and emotional urges. | |||