The discovery was unintentional, yes. Before it, Users, in their world [then a quick correction]--in this world, encountered programs only as lines of code.
Program sentience is a natural occurrence. However, each program is still specifically created by a User and assigned a clearly defined purpose, a set of parameters to operate under within the system. [This is a point he wants to make clear, although there was another type of self-aware program that emerged naturally from the system, without being created and without purpose. He'd considered them defects.]
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Date: 2011-10-09 07:13 am (UTC)Program sentience is a natural occurrence. However, each program is still specifically created by a User and assigned a clearly defined purpose, a set of parameters to operate under within the system. [This is a point he wants to make clear, although there was another type of self-aware program that emerged naturally from the system, without being created and without purpose. He'd considered them defects.]