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Nylith Empyreal
Sutar Rein
#1 - 2012-05-01 18:30:16 UTC  |  Edited by: Nylith Empyreal
Is there a list of their authors etc. (citation) information about them on the site somewhere? Looked at the stories themselves, but saw no information publishing etc. (only a post date from the information forums nothing concrete.)Thanks in advance.

Edit: Found the authors' names, is there anything regards to a publish date etc. Anything to build up a MLA citation would be awsome. Thanks.

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ISD Grossvogel
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#2 - 2012-05-01 18:54:46 UTC
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Nylith Empyreal
Sutar Rein
#3 - 2012-05-01 18:55:35 UTC
ISD Grossvogel wrote:
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Thank you.

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Publius Valerius
AirGuard
LowSechnaya Sholupen
#4 - 2012-05-02 01:49:11 UTC
Maybe that will help: List of EVE Chronicles

I would love to have those classes ingame. See here:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/376566/march-07-2011/joshua-foer
Nylith Empyreal
Sutar Rein
#5 - 2012-05-02 03:26:32 UTC
Oh wow, thanks. It's nice to have a English teacher who is willing to let you use a scifi game to discuss mans inherent awe and fear of science and it's advancements.

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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#6 - 2012-05-02 11:37:47 UTC
Nylith Empyreal wrote:
...mans inherent awe and fear of science and it's advancements...


Is that an opinion, or commonly accepted fact?

If it's the latter, why?

AK

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Nylith Empyreal
Sutar Rein
#7 - 2012-05-02 13:07:17 UTC
There are certain aspects that makes up a science fiction genre; "what if, if we could," and I forget the last one. When one of the aspects is taken into consideration and we apply say, cloning, we are given a duality of both fear and awe, we'll see within the text using the example above, the ability to bring loved ones back from the dead, but then you'll get the question of is it the same person, does the clone have the same soul? Etc. I have not read every science fiction book, so I certainly can't say if this is true of them all, but this is how it is being taught to me in my prerequisites. I have seen / read a few, and from the few I have I can see them both.

For a more hard example, I'll pick the movie Minority Report. Where police can predict the future via telepaths, we see a utopian world, however the system is given a 'what if' scenerio that questions if we have free will or not, to know everything is inevitable can be a daunting thing not to mention when it is claimed you will kill someone, such as the goodstanding father in the movie itself. Should be noted that the movie itself comes from a science fiction book, can thank Philip K. **** for all the science fiction involving telepathy etc.

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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#8 - 2012-05-02 17:51:07 UTC
Nylith Empyreal wrote:
For a more hard example, I'll pick the movie Minority Report. Where police can predict the future via telepaths, we see a utopian world, however the system is given a 'what if' scenerio that questions if we have free will or not, to know everything is inevitable can be a daunting thing not to mention when it is claimed you will kill someone, such as the goodstanding father in the movie itself. Should be noted that the movie itself comes from a science fiction book, can thank Philip K. **** for all the science fiction involving telepathy etc.


Interesting.

Always believed humans are incapable of understanding free will due to their inherent flaw of physical and psychological needs perpetually fighting for attention. Ergo, free will is impossible whilst we have these needs.

Without food - you die. Quod erat faciendum.

You cannot define free will whilst your physical needs and psychological needs do not allow you to make decisions outside of those two boxes.

All decisions, therefore, are the result of one of the two needs winning an internal argument your brain has, mostly without your consent. When you take a course of action, or make a decision, on the basis of how you 'feel', this is your brain making decisions for you.

All this is the core of why people debate the issue of free will, and also why a future that has removed these inherent needs is classed as a utopian future, and those with; a dystopian future.

Without needs-fulfilment, there would be no issues and certainly no need to balance an equation which is already balanced, similar to algebraic formulae balancing using notation: if both sides are equal; move on.

I believe I touched on this with specific reference to characters and story telling somewhere a few weeks back - "Do ships have crews?" thread perhaps...anyway, all stories and characters are directly proportional to how decisions are made and the balancing act that humans go through, due to the way the human brain currently is in its current stage of evolution.

The sci-fi film 'The forbidden planet' touches on this btw awesome Wikipedia link although I think it was very presumptuous to believe this part of the brain will still exist after another few million years.

Damn fine movie though.

AK

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Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2012-05-04 16:35:45 UTC
AlleyKat wrote:
Nylith Empyreal wrote:
For a more hard example, I'll pick the movie Minority Report. Where police can predict the future via telepaths, we see a utopian world, however the system is given a 'what if' scenerio that questions if we have free will or not, to know everything is inevitable can be a daunting thing not to mention when it is claimed you will kill someone, such as the goodstanding father in the movie itself. Should be noted that the movie itself comes from a science fiction book, can thank Philip K. **** for all the science fiction involving telepathy etc.


Interesting.

Always believed humans are incapable of understanding free will due to their inherent flaw of physical and psychological needs perpetually fighting for attention. Ergo, free will is impossible whilst we have these needs.

Without food - you die. Quod erat faciendum.

You cannot define free will whilst your physical needs and psychological needs do not allow you to make decisions outside of those two boxes.

All decisions, therefore, are the result of one of the two needs winning an internal argument your brain has, mostly without your consent. When you take a course of action, or make a decision, on the basis of how you 'feel', this is your brain making decisions for you.

All this is the core of why people debate the issue of free will, and also why a future that has removed these inherent needs is classed as a utopian future, and those with; a dystopian future.

Without needs-fulfilment, there would be no issues and certainly no need to balance an equation which is already balanced, similar to algebraic formulae balancing using notation: if both sides are equal; move on.

I believe I touched on this with specific reference to characters and story telling somewhere a few weeks back - "Do ships have crews?" thread perhaps...anyway, all stories and characters are directly proportional to how decisions are made and the balancing act that humans go through, due to the way the human brain currently is in its current stage of evolution.

The sci-fi film 'The forbidden planet' touches on this btw awesome Wikipedia link although I think it was very presumptuous to believe this part of the brain will still exist after another few million years.

Damn fine movie though.

AK


This is more or less the fundamental challenge of Buddhism. The mind gets out of the autonomic ruts that the brain runs on, and therefore can exercise free will. Some traditions use fasting and self-disciplining techniques to do that. When the body and brain can be controlled, the mind can jump out of the autonomic paths.