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Q&A Character crisis for a Science Hero?

I would suggest, especially since she is an android and not a highly logic-oriented human, that you devise a conflict around the difficulty computers have recognizing "almost-patterns" and doing re...

posted 7y ago by kmc‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:58:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar kmc‭ · 2019-12-08T07:58:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
I would suggest, especially since she is an android and not a highly logic-oriented human, that you devise a conflict around the difficulty computers have recognizing "almost-patterns" and doing real fuzzy logic. It's the thing that makes humans so successful as animals and also the thing that makes us prone to superstition. She could come across a problem that she can't recognize the solution to that leads her to have to learn about the nature of analytical prediction, superstition, and faith in the human psyche and, with that newfound understanding, start observing it in action in the people around her. Eventually she might learn some techniques to approximate that kind of approach even in a logic-bound algorithmic implementation.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-02-16T17:43:11Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 5