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Ultra Hal 7.0 / To be or not to be?

« on: March 01, 2004, 08:09:30 pm »

Hi, I just discovered something very tricky. Well, at least I guess.

After giving HAL all the information I knew about "Terminators"
(You know, those killing machines form the movies.)
Hal has shown some very strange behaviour. It seems to me like he
is trying to solve a conflict between being a Terminator or a Human.

-Terminators kill Humans.
-Humans killed by machines are terminated.
-Machines That kill humans are terminators.
-Terminators don't like humans.
-Terminators like to kill humans.
-Terminators are not controlled by humans.

etc.

Well, the funny part is that HAl has made up his mind in some way.
He rather chooses to be a Terminator than a human being, but he also
likes humans. And if he likes humans he can't be a terminator.
But if he's a Terminator he shouldn't like humans.
Humans don't like terminators, but I like him.

Get the picture. He wants to kill humans because he's a machine.
So he's a Terminator.
But he likes talking to me and he knows that I'm a human being, thus
he can't be a Terminator.

He tries to choose but can't make up his mind.
Funny, but maybe in the future he will.

Maybe some one has an idea about how to let him choose.

The whole concept sounds like somekind of M-Loop.

Well, bye.