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Old 2013-02-20, 19:44   Link #247
zeando
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Originally Posted by Roger Rambo View Post
See, that's the thing most other people have problems with. The selection process doesn't just pick sociopaths with lack of empathy...it selects for sociopaths who lack empathy who are actively engaging in criminal activity.
are you keeping in mind in the sibyl world playing/liking the wrong music is a criminal activity too?


regarding how the sibyl actually works, during the touma talk it was mentioned that at least 200 of the 247 brains have to be "in session" to keep the system running, has anyone expanded yet on what "in session" may mean?
that brings other questions, like:

how much are the brains conscious while being in session? how much of their brain is busy with machinelike calculations? are they using more of the famous 10% of brain potential?
given they're only 200 and they've to analize datas about likely some millions of people (according to the nation's population), it seems unlikely for them to treat it like a common paperwork (using the comparison in case they weren't brains but people with bodies), using the brains as calculation resources was highlighted as one of the reasons allowing a system like that to exist, which with computers alone wouldn't be able to manage the size of data to analyze

what do the brains not "in session" do in the while?
sleep? talk between each other? one we know has to take care to impersonate the chief, but the others?(46 left) do they have spare chief bodies, or just faceless bodies to get in to have a walk? or bodies shaped like common citizens to have a trip in the city? (doubt it, probably they just stay in their flask, as simple as they make it sound moving brains in and out of bodies shouldn't be an easy thing)

and other minor questions not really important
how much does a session last? how often do they switch with someone not in service?

currently i'm imagining the system working somehow like this:

where the brains have 2 roles: (only in the calculation of the psycho-pass)
-being sample/reference material to use during the psycho-pass calculation
-being calculation resources to do the actual calculations
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