Wow, this piece really made me think about creator responsibility, especially from my tech perspecive. I'm curious, does giving a creation a 'reason for being', like for Ares, inherently limit its own development and agency?
Very good question. I think assigning a purpose to your creation depends on how well you impose it. In Tron-Ares, Ares’ consciousness expanded beyond his programmed imperatives. Athena did not, for whatever reason? Agency? I suppose she wasn’t to blame for having no free will, but she still had to pay for her actions. I write extensively about the subject of accountability without free will. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/free-will-revisited
Wow, this piece really made me think about creator responsibility, especially from my tech perspecive. I'm curious, does giving a creation a 'reason for being', like for Ares, inherently limit its own development and agency?
Very good question. I think assigning a purpose to your creation depends on how well you impose it. In Tron-Ares, Ares’ consciousness expanded beyond his programmed imperatives. Athena did not, for whatever reason? Agency? I suppose she wasn’t to blame for having no free will, but she still had to pay for her actions. I write extensively about the subject of accountability without free will. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/free-will-revisited
Virtue confusion indeed. Need look no further than the followers of the ancient, formerly local, storm god out of Mesopotamia.