I have no evidence or foundation for that belief, it's something I take on faith. If that were the case then souls would have both a beginning point and an end point, I prefer to believe that souls are eternal. I also doubt his definition of a soul, which is basically just memory. I almost want to change careers just to go add to the body of research in this area.but instead I will just read other people's research. That's mind boggling, true, and yet still incredibly understudied. Don't get me wrong, I think nurture has far more of an effect than we ever thought, but it's because how you are nurtured and the choices you make have an effect on your DNA. On the first point I got a huge kick out of him saying that the nature/nurture fight had been won and it's all nurture, at least in the place of 'souls'. Not having to wait covers many sins.Īnyway, the moral issues attacked head on in this book are about copying the 'souls' of newborn babies and the life or nonlifeness of Artificial intelligences. But, then again, I discovered that he writes these things at the rate of one every two months! I can forgive a lot for such devotion. I don't like characters that only exist as foils for other characters and that's the role Asuna and Rinko seemed to fill in this book.
So, I liked this book, I gave it 4 stars because I just zipped through it and I was kind of proud of Kawahara for actually attacking moral issues head on.
Kirito is getting himself another adopted AI daughter. Despite it all being fake and human created, the characters strike me as very real, and it's really interesting to see how they have developed the Taboo Index and how things work for them, and how they seem limited by it because of their programming. Im also really enjoying the whole build up of this world. Despite we know he is an AI, he does have some human growth of sorts and its interesting to see just how much he'll be able to change or not just to see Alice again. But I do like Eugeo, and the development he is slowly having as a character. He is still a very annoying character, and he is still the stereotypical 'I can do it all' kinda guy, so no news there. And then, we return to Kirito, in his quest to find a system administrator and leave the game. In this book we learn the truth behind the project Kirito is involved in, and what is the ultimate goal of this whole new virtual world we're seeing. The whole Alicization project is actually quite scary, and something I wouldn't want developed, as it sounds like it could easily get out of control. So, after a couple of not very interesting books, this is finally getting better.
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