message 0026

• Tape-teaching/Creativity/The characters of Azi

>From: Lesley Grant <lgrant>
>Subject: cherryhlist
>Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 10:59:39 GMT

> >From: nancy ott <ott@ansoft.com>
 
> I don't think that deep-tape in itself *destroys* creativity -- seemed
> to me it was presented as a more efficient way to learn things.  
> On the other hand, I think tape could be used to condition people
> against being creative (and disruptive) by affecting their attitudes
> toward experimentation and conditioning them against certain types of
> behaviors. 

	I think this is exactly the case -- tape puts limits on what
one can do. If those limits are for some reason surpassed, a mental
breakdown can occur. Perhaps breakdown is too strong a word -- consider
Justin Warrick's treatment, which put severe limitations on his interaction
with Ari. If he got too near the limits he experienced nausea, mental 
discomfort etc. With an azi the results could be either worse (because their
universe suddenly shatters) or less severe (because they KNOW that patch tape
can heal them).
	However, it did seem to be morally objectionable for Reseune to do
things like designing job-satisfaction into azi, precisely becuause it would
do things like limiting creativity...

> 
> By the way, one of the most chilling aspects of Cyteen for me was this
> very casual attitude about human experimentation.  

	Yeah. Ari1 had a nine-year old boy "put down because she needed the
space".

			Lesley