[ "you think you know." he does not thoughtshare this, he is just thinking it to himself. but okay. thought experiment... ]
Let's consider what a nanite is, or a nanomachine. It's a microscopic machine designed almost on a molecular level, so it can infiltrate a person's body.
[ there's a pause...and then he just. goes for it. ]
Consider, now, what an organic nanomachine can actually do. Let's say there's a person whose body is ingested with a certain kind of nanite. Depending on the functionality, the nanite can latch onto bacteria in the body, and it can create a protein complex called CRISPR-Cas β. This protein can cut, move, and attached DNA nucleotide sequences, to the point where it can even overwrite the DNA structure inside neurons. Essentially, if it attaches and moves, it can rewire your brain. It can make you see things, it can make you perform actions you don't mean to, and even repeat actions over and over again. In some extreme cases, it can even make a person see hallucinations, or jump from high places, or...try to break through to what they perceive to be "the real world."
Now let's say this nanite enters a body. And let's say it also has the ability to multiply in the body and make copies of itself, attaching to its host. If your brain is rewritten and your perception of what your true reality is altered because of this machine, can you really say you did something by your own choice when the choice is different than what you would've made initially?
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Let's consider what a nanite is, or a nanomachine. It's a microscopic machine designed almost on a molecular level, so it can infiltrate a person's body.
[ there's a pause...and then he just. goes for it. ]
Consider, now, what an organic nanomachine can actually do. Let's say there's a person whose body is ingested with a certain kind of nanite. Depending on the functionality, the nanite can latch onto bacteria in the body, and it can create a protein complex called CRISPR-Cas β. This protein can cut, move, and attached DNA nucleotide sequences, to the point where it can even overwrite the DNA structure inside neurons. Essentially, if it attaches and moves, it can rewire your brain. It can make you see things, it can make you perform actions you don't mean to, and even repeat actions over and over again. In some extreme cases, it can even make a person see hallucinations, or jump from high places, or...try to break through to what they perceive to be "the real world."
Now let's say this nanite enters a body. And let's say it also has the ability to multiply in the body and make copies of itself, attaching to its host. If your brain is rewritten and your perception of what your true reality is altered because of this machine, can you really say you did something by your own choice when the choice is different than what you would've made initially?