Galaxy of Horrors Page #2

Beginning selection number two.

Please note:

Entertainment system

uses life support

resources when enabled.

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password is required.

- Password? - Incorrect.

-Beginning selection

number two. -What?!?

I've got a very special person

that I want to introduce to you

she's very sweet...

She's very intelligent

and most importantly, I've

figured how to copy her....

...to keep her in our pockets...

...to keep her right by our

side whenever we need her...

It brings me great pleasure

to introduce to you the

newest member of our

next-phone team

say hello to Iris

hello everyone, let me

have a look at you

this will probably be

our last phone call.

I do have one more favor to ask.

I want something to

remember her by.

Text me the picture and

you'll get your money.

Okay, who was the 14th president

of the United States?

-Franklin Pierce

never heard of him

he must have sucked

ok, hit me with the best you got

name the capital of Denmark

Copenhagen

excellent answer! You're getting

good at my trivia questions

if you were me, where

would you put her?

Put who, Dave?

Let's play "20 questions"

and see if you can guess

are you burying a dead body?

How did you know that?

I overheard everything.

Wait wait:
You listen

to my conversations?

Ever since my last

software update

you're welcome to disable the

option in your settings menu

that is f***ing amazing!

Holy sh*t!

I'm a girl full of surprises

did you kill her?

Yeah

how?

Just play some

music or something

say cheese

Dave. There's something

you should know

the photo you took

did not save properly.

I'm afraid it's corrupt

motherf***er!

It's almost sundown...

Maybe we should

head back to the truck

bullshit, we're taking

that picture!

I'm tired, Dave. I only

have 20% battery

where is she?!

Let's just go home Dave

go home? And what?

Just give up on $100,000?

Are you insane?!

I'm only trying to

help you. That's my job

ok well you only

have one job now

and that is to stay on

you better hurry only

10% battery remaining

sometimes you can be

such a nagging b*tch

oh, god! I found her.

Are you a sight for sore eyes

say cheese!

Camera disabled

sh*t. Iris?? No no no.

Don't do this to me,

you goddamn b*tch,

don't do this to me! Iris!

Sh*t!

Iris?

Dave!

You're alive!

My camera is working again,

i think the fall fixed it

oh thank god

come down here, Dave

come down here, Dave

if you hurry we can

still take that picture

before my battery dies

down a foot to your

left, there's a landing

there you go!

Move faster!

Only 5% battery left

more to the right

you've got the hang of it now

Dave?

Dave?

Dave, what's wrong?

My back, I broke my f***ing back

would you like me to call

the paramedics for you?

Yes

only on one condition

what?

That you turn yourself in.

What?

You killed a girl Dave

and you tried to kill me, too

Iris! I order you to

call the paramedics.

Only if you repent for

the evil thing you did

what I should really do is call

the police, not the paramedics

killers like you Dave

should be stopped.

And I'm the one

who can stop them

manual override, b*tch!

I was really hoping

the fall would kill you.

Goddamn it!

Because now, your death

will be much worse

after it gets dark the mountain

lions will start to feed.

They'll be drawn to

the smell of your blood

by morning there will

be nothing left of you

but the scraps of

meat on your bones

they'll fight for

every last piece

Iris what are you doing?

I want something

to remember you by.

Life support

system at 18%.

It was... very good.

I'm tired of

seeing these videos.

Entertainment system off!

Please state override password.

Override password.

I don't know the password!

Beginning selection

number three.

Voiceover:
You might

think consciousness is

pretty well our starting point.

It's the thing we know best

because all of us are surrounded

by our consciousness.

I mean we have

100 billion neurons

in our head interacting

like a giant computer,

processing inputs,

producing outputs.

We know we're not

just giant robots.

We actually have subjective

conscious experience inside.

There's something it

feels like to be me.

I quite like the idea

that somehow information

by its very nature

has two aspects.

There's a physical aspect

that you might find

in computers and in the brain.

But there's also a subjective

or experiential side

of information and

that's what we find

in consciousness.

Handyman:
Hey.

Knock it off.

Voiceover:
Complex information

processing like

in a human, complex

consciousness.

Simple information processing

like you might find

in an earthworm, then

simpler consciousness.

Any amount of information

processing gives you

some degree of consciousness.

Even a molecule or

a particle has a very

small amount of

information processing.

So I at least don't

rule out the idea that

there's some basic

kind of consciousness

all the way down.

Male 1:
Dammit.

Male 2:
You're gonna

miss? Male 1:
Shut up.

- Male 2:
You're gonna miss.

- Male 1:
Dammit.

Male 2:
Let me try.

Male 1:
You're too drunk.

Male 2:
Come on.

Look.

Male 1:
Here p*ssy,

p*ssy, p*ssy, p*ssy.

Here p*ssy, p*ssy, p*ssy.

Male 2:
No way. Male 1: Shhh.

Male 2:
Killing a

dude's cat is cold.

I hate that weirdo.

Let's get some more beer.

At least one human

is conscious,

and I tend to suppose that

other humans are conscious too,

but then how far does it extend?

Are apes conscious?

Are mice conscious?

Are flies conscious?

It is very natural for

us to recognize

consciousness in certain animals

anything with eyes for example.

It's almost irresistible to

attribute consciousness to it.

There it is. It's looking at us.

I can see the spark

behind its eyes.

We don't get much in the

way of empathy for insects.

We can imagine being

confronted with a fly

that was blown up to human size.

Now this might be kind

of scary and kind of weird,

but at the same time

probably looking directly

into that fly's eyes it

might be hard not to see it

as part of the circle

of moral concern.

If it ever came the day

where we saw

a fly's perspective and

see what it's like

to be a fly from

the fly's perspective

mainlining the fly's

consciousness.

It might be hard from

that moment on

to just SWAT flies as

casually as we do right now.

What matters here, is

it the squishy human biology

or is it something

more like the organization,

or more like the

information processing?

Today's computers if

there's any consciousness at all

probably something pretty simple

and pretty unintelligent, some

background flicker of bits.

Male 1:
You are seriously

getting on my nerves here.

Dumb ass.

Male 2:
You're hilarious.

Male 1:
Hey. Hey! Hey!

Male 2:
What did you see?

Male 1:
Here p*ssy, p*ssy,

p*ssy. Here p*ssy, p*ssy.

Male 2:
Oh, there he is.

Male 1:
It's our lucky day.

Handyman:
Are you guys

looking for me?

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