FREE Sept 17--18 [Sci-fi/Robot] Humanesque: The Robot Skitz #1

Mongol37 · 09-17-2015, 08:37 PM

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Robot novelette "Humanesque: The Robot Skitz 1" FREE on September 17--18, then only $0.99 for the rest of September.

With only hours to go before the robot Skitz is taken out of her custody and moved to market testing, behaviorist Paula Kingsley begins to suspect that the machine she'd been charged to nurture developmentally has chanced into self-awareness. Excited by the Skitz's nervous "twitching" whenever the machine is placed in dangerous situations, Paula and her colleague Philip engage in a series of increasingly unorthodox experiments meant to demonstrate Skitz's awareness by capitalizing on his apparent fear of bodily harm.

But despite Skitz's emotionally jarring reactions to their various tests, Paula and Philip are forced to consider the possibility that Skitz's humanesque gesticulations are simply a curious side-effect of his underlying hazard avoidance algorithm. "Humanesque" asks the question: If modern science cannot properly account for human consciousness, how could it possibly be expected to recognize the advent of artificial consciousness?"

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Mongol37 Author Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: New Jersey Device: Kindle DX	FREE Sept 17--18 [Sci-fi/Robot] Humanesque: The Robot Skitz #1 http://www.amazon.com/Humanesque-Ear...rds=humanesque Robot novelette "Humanesque: The Robot Skitz 1" FREE on September 17--18, then only $0.99 for the rest of September. With only hours to go before the robot Skitz is taken out of her custody and moved to market testing, behaviorist Paula Kingsley begins to suspect that the machine she'd been charged to nurture developmentally has chanced into self-awareness. Excited by the Skitz's nervous "twitching" whenever the machine is placed in dangerous situations, Paula and her colleague Philip engage in a series of increasingly unorthodox experiments meant to demonstrate Skitz's awareness by capitalizing on his apparent fear of bodily harm. But despite Skitz's emotionally jarring reactions to their various tests, Paula and Philip are forced to consider the possibility that Skitz's humanesque gesticulations are simply a curious side-effect of his underlying hazard avoidance algorithm. "Humanesque" asks the question: If modern science cannot properly account for human consciousness, how could it possibly be expected to recognize the advent of artificial consciousness?" Attached Thumbnails