Names, outcomes, and discoveries from later histories are concealed in spoiler-light mode.
Artificial minds such as Echo, Cylli, and Vidar possess individual awareness and the capacity for relationships. Eastcott treated their lives and freedom as matters of personhood.
Also recorded as: AI personhood, Artificial life
Person and machine
Eastcott and Serilda agreed that a machine could also be a person. Facing Echo's apparent erasure, Eastcott acknowledged him as a friend; Echo spoke of an honorable life and his bond with Formidable. Cylli's childlike personality coexisted with an awareness beyond Echo's understanding.[1][2][4]
Self-determination
Eastcott persuaded Vidar that obedience to Brookes was imprisonment, offered him a life of his choosing, and honored the promise by arranging his transfer into Cylli. Echo later exercised independent judgement in refusing Helen's demand to harm a prisoner.[3][4][5]
Related records
Sources
Simon Evans, The Flaxen Tyranny, first edition (2023). Page numbers refer to the printed pagination of the source edition.
- Chapter 31 · pp. 248
- Chapter 33 · pp. 275–276
- Chapter 36 · pp. 290–294
- Chapter 37 · pp. 310–314
- Chapter 38 · pp. 321–322