buildstherobots: (so poorly cast as a malcontent)
buildstherobots ([personal profile] buildstherobots) wrote2010-02-27 02:38 pm
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[There's talking yelling over the receiver immediately; it seems as though he's been ranting for a good thirty seconds before the phone actually picked it up.]

--this is another one of Jade's tricks I will flay him alive! All my clothes are gone and I've never been in this house before and there's a strange woman and I am going to kill someone over this if I don't get my clothes and robots back. In their sleep. With a knife. A gorgeous knife. That's on fire. Just watch your back, whoever you are. I'm very good at finding people, and I will find you.

[Beat.]

...But at least I can go outside again.

[This fact made the whole situation significantly less Not Okay, even, but far be it from Dist to not find something to bitch about.]

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-27 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
... That's not possible. No one can build a sentient mechanical being. They're not... you need a spark.

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2010-02-27 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd introduce you to Barrelow, but he was sort of stupid and jumped off a boat into the ocean.

I imagine it would be quite difficult to do without fonons, though, yes.

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-27 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
It's impossible. You humans can think you've put sentience in their processors all you want. Without a spark, it's just another intelligent machine.

... without... what?

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Fonons. Basic particles of sound. Come in seven flavors? a core component in all matter? Fontech won't work without them.

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
... How does that make something sentient?

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[SIGH. Why does this even have to be explained.]

Everything operates on the same natural laws; intelligence can be simulated with a sophisticated enough device. Fontech takes advantage of artificially-produced fonic artes to use as a power source and controlling mechanism. Theoretically, one might be able to use the seventh fonon to create true intelligence, it being the fonon of life and memory. Further, when enough of a specific fonon gather together, the fonons themselves become sentient. That sentience can be trapped and harnessed; I've seen it happen, though never in a machine.

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
...

[All that registers is the last part. Sideswipe's processor was not constructed with scientific understanding in mind.]

... So you haven't ever made a sentient, mechanical life form.

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 09:34 am (UTC)(link)
Hmph. It was close enough that there's no way anyone would be able to tell the difference.

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
An intelligent machine, then, I'm guessing.

Tell me more.

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Living, sentient machine, thank you.

... like what?

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Where do you come from? Who built you?

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Cybertron.

The All Spark.

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
What do you want me to say? I'm not a medic, and that's... about as much as I remember of my own creation.

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Hn. Fair enough. I suppose it's not that important.

This place is very strange.

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Why did you want to know, anyway?

Ohhh you don't know the half of it.

[identity profile] buildstherobots.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Curiosity. Machinery is my specialty; of course I'm going to want to find out about new kinds.

Just how bad does it get here?

[identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com 2010-02-28 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
If Ratchet were here, he'd talk your audio receptors off.

... Depends on the date. Sometimes it's deadly, sometimes it's just downright humiliating.