#holism

[yuner0523]

Holism is like a square orange

[mrv3000]

Finished System Collapse again and I love that the university research transports are written like two PhDs locked in an academic bitchfight. Holism metaphorically publishes a paper called "These are the Correct Facts," and ART quickly publishes "The Belief in So-Called "Correct" Facts is Irrational," followed by a rebuttal of "The Correct Facts are Correct if Your Processing Power is Above .0000034." And their footnotes are just them arguing with each other. They were created by a university and of course this is how they act.

[thesaurus-with-no-words]

So I just finished reading System Collapse. Excellent story, but what really tickled me was the end when Holism showed up, because:

1. Holy shit, there are more ARTs out there; ain't that just terrifying.

2. ART and Holism have serious beef and it's so fucking funny.

3. Holism keeps pinging Murderbot, and when that doesn't work, because ART keeps telling MB to ignore it, it eventually tries to get a foot in the door via an infopacket. The covo basically goes like this:

Holism: message packet, tagged: infrastructure proposals.

Murderbot: I'm a security consultant. I specialize in security. Planetary/infrastructure rebuilding and clean up is not my job.

Holism: I could help you learn about it, if you're interested ;-)

ART, to MB: Stop talking to it.

Murderbot: I just think it's bored.

ART: I don't give a shit.

:'D lmao. Ok so there was no ;-) in the original text, but it was definitely implied, which ART definitely caught, and Murderbot definitely did not.

Murderbot then asks Three if it'll go and listen to Holism talk about planetary infrastructure to it, and Three is into educational material and actually does want to do that, so in a completely unconscious move I think Murderbot just played kismet for another Terrible Transport Horror, letting it get its own rogue SecUnit.

[ehyehyhwhh]

A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN A MONTH. TRUST GOD.

[mnduck]

[xanaxfarts]

Iris Van Herpen: 'Hybrid Holism' Autumn/Winter (2012/2013)

[dandeliondelivery]

Holism, deciding to seduce ART's bot for fun, trying to figure out how it pulled this rogue SecUnit: is it its research database? Maybe it's big on proprietary data... My meat processing capacity is huge this will be easy

Holism: here's exclusive info on infrastructure proposals that Perihelion doesn't have yet 😏 I could help you learn about it, if you're interested... ;)

[wubbelwubbwubb]

I sent, ETA on shuttle arrivals.

ART said, 7.32 minutes at the same time as Holism said, 7.3247 minutes. The resulting silence on the feed was stony.