June 24, 2015
Post-Human Consciousness
A review of Melanie Marttila’s “Downtime” in OnSpec Vol. 26, No. 3 By Derek Newman-Stille Melanie Marttila begins her short story “Downtime” by bringing us into the consciousness of a newly aware artificial intelligence named Opus. The first question the AI asks us is “what am I?” and she quickly follows with “I am not human. I am more”. Any...