„Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!“
— Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives
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Charles Stross
Data de nascimento: 18. Outubro 1964
Outros nomes:צ'ארלס סטרוס
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Charles David George "Charlie" Stross é um premiado escritor britânico de ficção científica, horror e fantasia. Stross é especializado em hard science fiction e space opera. Entre 1994 e 2004 ele foi também um escritor ativo para a revista Computer Shopper e foi o responsável pela coluna mensal sobre Linux. Ele parou de escrever para a revista para dedicar mais tempo aos seus romances. No entanto, ele continua a publicar artigos na Internet.
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escritor americanoCitações Charles Stross
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„“Well, moving swiftly sideways into cognitive neuroscience... In the past twenty years we’ve made huge strides, using imaging tools, direct brain interfaces, and software simulations. We’ve pretty much disproved the existence of free will, at least as philosophers thought they understood it. A lot of our decision-making mechanics are subconscious; we only become aware of our choices once we’ve begun to act on them. And a whole lot of other things that were once thought to correlate with free will turn out also to be mechanical. If we use transcranial magnetic stimulation to disrupt the right temporoparietal junction, we can suppress subjects’ ability to make moral judgements; we can induce mystical religious experiences: We can suppress voluntary movements, and the patients will report that they didn’t move because they didn’t want to move. The TMPJ finding is deeply significant in the philosophy of law, by the way: It strongly supports the theory that we are not actually free moral agents who make decisions—such as whether or not to break the law—of our own free will.
“In a nutshell, then, what I’m getting at is that the project of law, ever since the Code of Hammurabi—the entire idea that we can maintain social order by obtaining voluntary adherence to a code of permissible behaviour, under threat of retribution—is fundamentally misguided.” His eyes are alight; you can see him in the Cartesian lecture-theatre of your mind, pacing door-to-door as he addresses his audience. “If people don’t have free will or criminal intent in any meaningful sense, then how can they be held responsible for their actions? And if the requirements of managing a complex society mean the number of laws have exploded until nobody can keep track of them without an expert system, how can people be expected to comply with them?”“
— Charles Stross
Chapter 26, “Liz: It’s Complicated” (pp. 286-287)
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„If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.“
— Charles Stross
Chapter 13, “Climb” (p. 224)
„Truly the jaws of irony are agape!“
— Charles Stross
Chapter 13, “Kemal: Spamcop” (p. 157)
„You got overdraft at the mythology bank.“
— Charles Stross
Chapter 15, “Delivery Service” (p. 329)
„No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.“
— Charles Stross
Chapter 1, “Liz: Red Pill, Blue Pill” (p. 16)
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„“Prosthetic Morality Enforcement. The idea is that by analogy, if a part of your body is deficient or missing, you can use a prosthetic limb or artificial organ. Well, our ability to make moral judgements is hard-wired, but it’s been so far outrun by the demands of complex civilization that it can’t keep up. For example... have you ever wondered why discussions in chat rooms or instant messaging turn nasty so easily? Or wander off topic? It’s because the behavioural cues we use to trigger socially acceptable responses aren’t there in a non-face-to-face environment. If you can’t see the other primate, your ethical reasoning is impaired because you can’t build a complete mental image of them—a cognitive frame. It’s why identity theft and online fraud are such a problem: There’s no inhibition against robbery if the victim is faceless. So we need some kind of prosthetic framework to restore our ability to interact with people on the net as if they’re human beings we’re dealing with in person.“
— Charles Stross
Chapter 26, “Liz: It’s Complicated” (pp. 287-288)
