Tale of two planets

"Rational Machine from Rigel IV" written by River Road here in this Blog is a science fiction story with two main themes. There is the “war on terror" theme about two planets Earth and Tenalp, their last world wars and how each dealt with them, and then there is the “artificial intelligence" theme about a Machine being whose mind operates on the same principle as the human mind. Although these two topics are quite diverse they do connect up on planet Tenalp.

The lead up to the final wars on both worlds had basically the same causes but each resolved their conflict differently. On Earth the war was short and with relatively few casualties. On Tenalp the war was long and brutal.

The design of a Machine being described here is based on Man’s method of cognition, how initially the mind operates automatically then transitions over to a volitional/self aware being. For reference see Ayn Rand’s theory of concepts in the Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.

There are tree main characters in this story, Rey Natur from Earth, T’lag Ten the Machine Being and Nia T’lag the daughter of Neos T’lag, Ten’s inventor.
Rey is 47 years old is average looking. Ten, at least from his waist up, looks similar to Honda’s Asimo. Nia is 37 years old and could resemble Saavik of the Star Trek movie.

RoL