USH'S MATRIX GAME FOURTH ASSIGNMENT (PHILOSOPHY PATH)- 'The Journey'

I would have to go with my beliefs an not choose. Personally I htink Meltius is a traightforward guy and if he were gonna kill us, he'd say it. But alas. If I didnt have to absolutely send one to death I wouldnt.

So you do not think that eliminating the AI, whom you identify as an inferior being in several ways, in order to enable the real Castor to re-jopin the fight for Zion is a laudable aim?

Its not really my place to decide if he dies or not. I can only control what I do. My fate is my own. I think that the clone is a little too close to being like me for me to kill it. after all i dont even know if i am the fake one..

So you place its life as more valuable than your freedom and the contribution you make to Zion?

No, but I dont think its my place to just destroy something like that. If it was able to accurately imiitate me, then there must be something that gives it the right to exsist. I dont think I have the right to take that away. Taking away rights is what zion is fighting for, so the machines cant take away ours. It would be hypocritical to take those of another being....do unto others I suppose.

as described in my submission....

by an irational, unexplainable fact...i somehow feel that i am the real rade.....and i am therefore asking him to drink.
However, i would overcome this 'feeling' over to the rational thinking ( there's an equal chance i'm the fake) at the slightest impulse to do so...like the other one asking me to drink. Therefore...if i am asking him...he feels like me..and he should accept.
This theory works, ofcourse, only if i get the advantage of speaking first...i guess the character currently played by me (real or clone) has that advantage

Very well Castor, thankyou. I will get back to you ASAP.

Rade, are you saying you are totally unimpressed by all your own instincts and feelings and ego that screams at you that you are the Human (and so likewise scream at the other)? For the slightest little thing to tip the balance for you involves dumping a lot of your own emotion- is this so?

i have the feelings and instincts and ego BUT..i know they're not a concrete evidence i'm the real..i just feel that. So it's not really a rational argument..that's why, yes..i would be inclined to tip the balance that easily

Some people might say that to discard your instincts in favour of trying to find rationality is the behaviour of a machine- how would you answer that?

piss off 😛...kidding.

I'd say..yes, it's true...i have more of a machine-like thinking. The machines must have some similarity to their creators...🙂

It certainly puts your views in an interesting perspective!

However, again, some would say that from a purely rational viewpoint, self-preservation would be your overwhelming objective, and hence you would not actually drink simply on the whim of the other asking you to.

on the contrary...a rational viewpoint makes me aware that i could be indeed the clone.....hence overriding self-preservation...
i would drink...

But do you think the clone is capable of rationalising its own suicide like that?

I, as the real or as the clone, am...
so, yes

So you really would kill yourself simply because someone else asked you to in this circumstance?

yeah.....that's why whoever speaks first..makes all the difference. And i'm hoping i am.

i hate it to bring the problem to this situation.....the most obvious and simple of all....but...that's really based on my beliefs.
You might say that i am in no way better than the machine.....and yes...as i said..i cannot percieve the difference

Ok... I'll try and get back to you ASAP but I may need to ask some more questions.

oki

you alive ush?

Maybe a repellant of evil stops him getting here 😛 He was online today, but I'm sure he'll get here. He does have a hell of a lot of things to do.