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Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :

-steps between a pummeled targetemployee and his attackers-

You want to fight - fight me...

So - what's the deal with holograms these days?

Does the holodoc's, etc. program reside in a hardware computer or is it supposed to reside in the "holomatrix" itself, sort of "lightware"?

They seem to just keep expanding what exactly a hologram is.

Silly question - but hey we have to talk about something while the recounts go on...

[This message has been edited by Toadkiller (edited December 08, 2000).]

Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

As I understand it, a hologram is photons projected onto complex forcefields. It could be anything, from a bald humanoid to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle doll.

The holo-matrix is the software that runs the program. Doc's is extremely sophisticated since it contains more than a preprogrammed responces, but also personality and adaptive elements. The holo-emitters are independant pieces of hardware which are controlled, along with the holo-matrix, by the ship's computer.

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :

Indeed - we often hear the Doctor referring to himself as a "collections of photons and forcefields".

Mark

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

But nowadays every other hologram is senient and considered a living person...made up of photons and forcefields.

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Posted by Toadkiller (Member # 425) on :

I guess that was my point. They don't seem to notice that it isn't the hologram that is an AI it is the computer.

I'd love to see them run the doctor on a terminal as a text only application.

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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

Well, it's not so much that the computer is a sentient being, it's the program running on the computer that is sentient.

Like if Photoshop suddenly started typing things on its own and creating pictures of me getting killed to try and get me to stop scanning in Star Trek pictures. That doesn't necessarily mean that my Dell is intelligent, just Photoshop.

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[This message has been edited by Aban Rune (edited December 14, 2000).]