Quote:
Originally Posted by ericthered
Morocco has no native cactus's.
|
Olive struggles with having no target for the animosity she feels toward the Cactaceae family, and continues to hold her tongue.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ericthered
Olive finds several flaws that show it to be of modern construction. As soon as these are mentioned to Heera, she replaces the room with a different one. This one is authentic, patterned after a real place, and Olive can tell.
|
She begins to wonder why she has these confidences about reality and why the machine doesn't know these details... but thinks that since Heera is deferring to her choices that either Heera trusts her historical judgment, or perhaps doesn't know one way or the other and just normally defers to people's requests.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ericthered
She finds the pineapples and finds she wants to talk to a growing pineapple. So Heera generates a garden with pineapple in the courtyard. Something is still off. Olive has Heera add a cactus. She's not sure which one, and starts browsing a catalog of cacti. Something is there, she wants to...
The image in her mind clears. She doesn't want to talk to a pineapple or cactus. She wants to talk to one of the plants she dreamed about last night. The tall stalks with four umbrella leaves stacked on top of each other and the red growths between them.
Were those from her dream or from pictures of the planet? she wasn't sure.
|
Olive makes a motion as if to stack the pineapples from the garden atop the cactus. Although there is no sensation of touch here, she assumes that Heera can understand physical movements and how they will represent a desire to relocate the scenery (similar to how a virtual chair was lifted and levied against her)
She imagines this will be somewhat clumsy since she doesn't have tactile sensations, but that the computer can still vaguely understand what she is trying to grip/move and vaguely relocate them.
Stacking the 'apples atop the cactus she tries to build an approximation (like a snowman) of the umbrella-leaf-stalked plants in her dream.