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From Le Carré to Artificial Intelligence -- The Inspirations of When the Sparrow Falls
There, the populace refuses to submit to the Machine, believing that neither digital humans nor AI have souls.
From Le Carré to Artificial Intelligence -- The Inspirations of When the Sparrow Falls - Den of Geek
What if human consciousness could be digitized? Would the digital version still be human, or would it be a meaningless string of data that no longer has a soul? In Neil Sharpson's When the Sparrow Falls, the Caspian Republic is the last holdout nation of natural born humans. There, the populace refuses to submit to the Machine, believing that neither digital humans nor AI have souls. Unfortunately, the Caspian Republic is also a totalitarian nightmare of a nation, where not one but two police organizations could come for you in the night, and you'd never be seen again.