"Not tainted at all, and you were not ignorant of the situation as it originally was told to you by the Oracle. She did not tell you what was behind it either, and yet I do not hear any anger towards her. Just as she did, I left you in the situation you would be if you had faced the door with no interference whatsoever. Your decision was clear- you would have opened it. I have not actually changed anything."
"I couldn't do it," says Lo Qi. "I couldn't cross the barrier. I would have been perfectly happy for Jericho to do it, as he was absolutely aware of the full consequences of his actions and had taken his choice appropriately.
"I had absolutely no desire for what you call 'free representatives' of humanity to do it. But the fact of the matter was that you had the key. I had no desire to kill you for it, or to manipulate you into doing what I wanted. And so, as I say, I did not interfere. The advice I provided was entirely neutral- as was the advice from the Oracle, and so I would imagine, Sennacherib also."
He smiles.
"She was right about you too."
"So you are content that the Door was opened, then? Don`t you care about the fate of your kind? Or do you consider the existance of Matrix wrong?" -Melkor inquires, as he really wants to understand the position of Lo Qi. He tries to focus despite feeling ill, he has to find a way...
"I have another question. In the Museum there was a box being traded for the Key. What is the purpose of this box, to release something or contain something?"
"Very well..." says Lo Qi...
... and so we begin!
Last time, Melitus took you through a number of simulated visual environments inside his 'realm'.
Lo Qi has a somewhat more down to Earth approach- whether it is more or less impressive is up to you.
But when he sweeps his stick around the rock garden, the pebbles and gravel re-arrange themselves to form words or pictures- more like diagrams- as he desires.
At first, the dust swirls around him like a curtain, before pebbles settle down and form a word visible to you all.
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PURPOSE
"I hear you use this word a lot. It's something this place makes people ask about. And in all sorts of contexts too- for yourself, for others, for all. For Humans, in the Matrix, or in Zion. And for Artificial Intelligences... in general... and Exiled.
"But let's take a step back and ask a simple question. When we ask about purpose, it strikes me the word can be quite ambiguous. So what, exactly, do we mean by it?"
Originally posted by General Zink
"I guess there's also the use of purpose to define what something is or does. For example, what's the purpose of an Agent, or what's the purpose of a corkscrew."
"Ahh yes. I very much agree. 'Purpose' is a word that really has two applications. How could we best dfine them, even for yourselves? For whilst you may say that, as you are not designed for a particular reason, you cannot have purpose as a corkscrew does... yet many of you believe in destiny. In the Oracle. In the One. All ideas which involve humans having a 'purpose' in similar ways."