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Safe Acension for Baseline Bob
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(04-20-2016, 03:26 PM)QwertyYerty Wrote: Thank you Todd. Your answers have made me think of more questions.
( don't forget to trim your posts a bit; otherwise this thread will grow geometrically. Smile )

I'll just jump in and answer a couple of cherry-picked questions. I'm sure we'll get round to the rest in due course.
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Quote:Do transapients have feelings of love for other transapients? Do they have emotions, and if so what do we know about them?
They certainly have emotions, or at least some of them do. The transapient experience can encompass almost everything that human experience encompasses, although there are probably some base or primitive experiences that transapients can't experience. So yes, some of them can fall in love with each other, and some can experience feelings very like love for other concepts such as knowledge or the environment, or even for pure mathematics.
Could a transapient fall in love with a human, or some other sophont? I expect that some of them could perhaps isolate some small part of their consciousness that would be able to fall in love with a human as an equal, but this would be akin to creating a new entity for that purpose. Some avatars and proxies do form romantic and/or sexual relationships with modosophonts, but the relationship would become completely different whenever the proxy re-integrates with the main body of the transapient's mind.
Basically a transapient can choose to do a lot of things which other people can only do involuntarily, including achieving control over their emotions. This control is not omnipotent, however, and sometimes even transapients lose their balance or their sanity.

Quote:Do transapients have careers? Do they typically become employed by other transapients?

In a way, yes. In many places there is a hierarchy of transapients, so that a S:1 transap might be subordinate to a S:2 transap, and so on; but these relationships are mostly beyond human understanding. It may sometimes be useful to model these relationships using an economic model, even a commercial model. Sometimes other models are more appropriate; an academic hierarchy might be a better model in some cases.

Quote:I read most cities and planets (at least in the inner sphere) are run by slaved transapient intelligences,
I'm not sure that these polities are mostly run by slaved transapients; this does happen in some locations, but in many other locations the transaps have complete freedom of action. On the other hand slaved-transaps can perform a lot of useful functions, such as fine control over complex processes and technology that no modosophont or group of modosophonts could handle in real time. These include gift technology like reactionless drive ships, and support systems like guardwebs,

Quote:so it looks like there are no opportunities to run cities or planets for new post- bionts.
A newly ascended transap in a crowded Inner Sphere system could always create a new megastructure and oversee that, or launch an exploration/colonisation mission to the Periphery (a journey that would start with a trip to the edge of the Wormhole Nexus). Or the new transap could submit to the will of other, higher transapients and find new purposes in life a modo could barely even glimpse.

Quote: It seems like most post bionts who ascend seem to continue whatever they were continuing to do before they ascended. Is this typical? What if Baseline Bob had a free ascension and didn’t have a job (or was unemployed at the time). Other than continue their previous work, what do post- bionts (S1) typically do after they ascend (career- wise)?
This is the difference between Ascension and Transcension; an ascended post-biont will appear to keep some, or many of the original's characteristics, while a transcended post-biont will be very different in most respects.

Quote:Do transapients have hobbies?
They appear to do so, yes. Many of their pursuits seem trivial, or even boring.

Quote: Or are they mostly slaved (mentally/ enthusiastically) to a particular task?
Enslavement of a transapient can only be performed by a higher transapient, and is almost certainly completely different to anything we would understand as enslavement. But to answer your question more precisely, slaved transaps are very much in the minority.

Quote:And if transapients are mostly free in their will, what do transapients like to do for fun (at least, what do we know about those habits and how it’s related to their work)?
How much do transapients (S1) talk about what they think? I presume most of what we know about S1s comes from their behavior or what they tell us. They’re ability to think is beyond our reach, so how do the small modosapients do research on the mighty S1s?
Transapients are so diverse there would be a myriad answers to each of these questions, and these answers might not even be consistent from a modosophont point of view. To imagine what these entities would be like we need to exert all our collective imagination - you can help here, I'm sure.
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Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by QwertyYerty - 03-16-2016, 01:09 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Rynn - 03-16-2016, 08:15 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Drashner1 - 03-17-2016, 01:01 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Drashner1 - 03-18-2016, 11:38 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Drashner1 - 04-15-2016, 11:29 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by stevebowers - 04-21-2016, 05:41 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Drashner1 - 04-21-2016, 11:46 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Bear - 03-17-2016, 01:34 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Rynn - 04-14-2016, 11:14 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Rynn - 04-22-2016, 07:33 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Drashner1 - 04-23-2016, 09:32 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Rynn - 04-23-2016, 07:50 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Drashner1 - 04-24-2016, 08:33 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Rynn - 04-25-2016, 06:44 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by QueElEs - 05-06-2016, 08:56 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Rynn - 05-06-2016, 09:24 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by QueElEs - 05-06-2016, 10:25 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Rynn - 05-06-2016, 11:52 PM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by QueElEs - 05-07-2016, 12:33 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Rynn - 05-09-2016, 12:10 AM
RE: Safe Acension for Baseline Bob - by Drashner1 - 05-09-2016, 02:57 AM

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