Sol Robeson: Certain programs cause computers to get stuck in a particular loop. The loop leads to meltdown but just before the crash, they become aware of their own structure. The computer has a sense of its own silicon nature and it prints out the ingredients.
Maximillian Cohen: The computer becomes conscious?
Sol Robeson: In some ways, I guess.
Maximillian Cohen: Studying the pattern made Euclid conscious of itself. I had to... Before it died it spit out the number. That consciousness is the number?
Sol Robeson: No, Max. It's only a nasty bug.
Maximillian Cohen: It's more than that, Sol.
Sol Robeson: No, it's not. It's a dead end. There's nothing there.
Maximillian Cohen: It's a door, Sol. It's a door.
Sol Robeson: A door at the front of a cliff. You're driving yourself over the edge.
Maximillian Cohen: The computer becomes conscious?
Sol Robeson: In some ways, I guess.
Maximillian Cohen: Studying the pattern made Euclid conscious of itself. I had to... Before it died it spit out the number. That consciousness is the number?
Sol Robeson: No, Max. It's only a nasty bug.
Maximillian Cohen: It's more than that, Sol.
Sol Robeson: No, it's not. It's a dead end. There's nothing there.
Maximillian Cohen: It's a door, Sol. It's a door.
Sol Robeson: A door at the front of a cliff. You're driving yourself over the edge.
Sol Robeson : Certain programs cause computers to get stuck in a particular loop. The loop leads to meltdown but just before the crash, they become aware of their own structure. The computer has a sense of its own silicon nature and it prints out the ingredients.
Maximillian Cohen : The computer becomes conscious?
Sol Robeson : In some ways, I guess.
Maximillian Cohen : Studying the pattern made Euclid conscious of itself. I had to... Before it died it spit out the number. That consciousness is the number?
Sol Robeson : No, Max. It's only a nasty bug.
Maximillian Cohen : It's more than that, Sol.
Sol Robeson : No, it's not. It's a dead end. There's nothing there.
Maximillian Cohen : It's a door, Sol. It's a door.
Sol Robeson : A door at the front of a cliff. You're driving yourself over the edge.
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