Oh yes, this was the other thing your post made me remember. It seemed (not certain?) that the ships had a central (non-organic?) brain in the ship, plus ancilliaries, whereas AM was distributed with (probably?) no central brain.
I wasn't sure if JoT's increasing self-determination as Breq was solely due to increasingly escaping programmed safeguards AM put in the main brain, or if there was a suggestion that organic brains were inherently more people-y, and Breq was more like "JoT Esk One brain, with JoT memories". I don't like that interpretation as much, because it's less interesting distributed-consciousness-wise, but it's somewhat straightforward and common in other SF.
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Date: 2014-09-16 12:28 pm (UTC)I wasn't sure if JoT's increasing self-determination as Breq was solely due to increasingly escaping programmed safeguards AM put in the main brain, or if there was a suggestion that organic brains were inherently more people-y, and Breq was more like "JoT Esk One brain, with JoT memories". I don't like that interpretation as much, because it's less interesting distributed-consciousness-wise, but it's somewhat straightforward and common in other SF.