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Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" with Jim

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The Ecstasy of Life

Harlan: What we're trying to do by creating an AI is create a disembodied version of ourselves. And the resentment and the hatred that Am has for everything in the story stems from its very will to live immortally, which was our will, he says. Harlan: The ecstasy of life involves death in some way, or the ability to depersonalize oneself. But what Am does is it reconstructs its world on the basis of social subjection and machinic enslavement," writes Harlan.

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