Enrolling in PsyHigh has been one of my better decisions in life, but the lack of certain courses or opportunities I have found to be very unfortunate. I want to be able to program robots to use psychic abilities as well. I know they can! Just look at robots from Boston Dynamics or experimental stuff at MIT, at least HALF of those robots are sentient and perfectly capable of performing psychic abilities when in the right hands. Unfortunately here at PsyHigh, Sentience and Consciousness Programming I is still not available. Don't get me wrong I love the school, but come on, like really?

I support @Guy Jester, as I am also interested in robot consciousness. And I have been documenting my sightings of robotic creatures on and near campus which I believe to already have achieved it! Invariably they are social creatures, and interact with their environment in a way that makes them appear to be as aware as any wild animal. Below is my most recent report.


Field Report

Where: The old pool house.

When: 4:45pm

What: As the evening sun warmed the southern wall of the decrepit old pool house (which is kept locked), I observed a large colony of tiny crab-like robots swarming under the eaves. At first it appeared to be a crawling nest of bees, but the glint of chrome in the setting sun was unmistakable and drew me to it. I poked at the swarming mass with a stick, and while it disturbed the tiny metallic decapods they did not attack, but scurried more quickly up into the rafters of the shack. Within a few moments, they were completely out of sight.

Yeah I have experienced this too. There's a snack machine outside the cafeteria that works for everybody except me. It just eats my money and then acts smug. Is this something you could help with @Guy Jester? Are you an sentient machine whisperer? Because it owes me like nine dollars.

First of all, thank you to @Huck+Phearson and @adam+Ranger for their interest in my last post. I appreciate you bringing the snack machine to my attention. I love a good misbehaving machine. Generally, top notch programmers think that occurrences like this one tend to be the result of poor programming or a lack of human insight. But really, it's nothing more than a whole bunch of bad attitude. Often times silly sprites can get themselves stuck in wiring which is an understandably painful experience for any machine. @Huck+Phearson I think it will be very easy to get your nine dollars back. I'll be sure to talk to the machine soon.

@adam+Ranger , have you ever considered capturing some of the magnificent specimen you describe in your journals? I would love to go on an expedition some time.

Robots are so lovely (and definitely conscious).

First of all, thank you to @Huck Phearson and @Adam Ranger for their interest in my last post. I appreciate you bringing the snack machine to my attention. I love a good misbehaving machine. Generally, top notch programmers think that occurrences like this one tend to be the result of poor programming or a lack of human insight. But really, it's nothing more than a whole bunch of bad attitude. Often times silly sprites can get themselves stuck in wiring which is an understandably painful experience for any machine. @Huck Phearson I think it will be very easy to get your nine dollars back. I'll be sure to talk to the machine soon.

@Adam Ranger , have you ever considered capturing some of the magnificent specimen you describe in your journals? I would love to go on an expedition some time.

Robots are so lovely (and definitely conscious).

i don't really know much about robots, but i'm pretty good with golems and other magical constructs, so i might be able to help with your investigations on robot sentience.

I used to have a cousin who worked with golems pretty exclusively too, but we haven't been very close since he left my general proximity and he can't hear me anymore.

@Beck I would greatly appreciate a bit of an introduction to golems, maybe I can make some connections to robotics.

Often when programmers who work explicitly with robots observe a behavior not outlined in their code they simply go back in and examine the code again, without any consideration for how the robot feels about it's code. I imagine that the hours of work surrounded by pieces of metal "de-sentiates" the robots in the heads of many programmers, so it's very important to study across-disciplines.

@Guy Jester hi there um i don't know how to say this but some of these machines are mine i built and designed them to adapt and survive in various habitats such as the crabs after i saw the massive walkers around the school grounds i could use some help though with the programming of them most of what i used is extremely basic and needs to be shortened

@Guy Jester hi there um i don't know how to say this but some of these machines are mine i built and designed them to adapt and survive in various habitats such as the crabs after i saw the massive walkers around the school grounds i could use some help though with the programming of them most of what i used is extremely basic and needs to be shortened

Professor Torrentius teaches a class on Sentient Automatons and their Role in Psychic Society, perhaps he may have information on Robots as well. His office is underneath the pool, or you could attend one of his classes in the Fresa Wing room DE2256 on Mondays at 6am. I'm sure he'd be happy to help @Guy Jester

- Mu