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[Feros]

[SPEC]Durga, Melissa, SP: One and the Same???

[Nova]

I'm curious. Why do you say the Princess is insane?

[Feros]

either she is insane or she is melissas sub-conscious, I mean really she is fairly off the wall, in both her story as well as in her communiques, true she could just be having some fun, but sometimes there is a fine line between sanity and insanity. I hasve also played around with the idea that possibly just possibly each AI represents the different states of mind.

The ID (SP) -the id is governed by the "pleasure principle" she is always about being happy for the moment.

The EGO(Durga) - the surface of the personality, the part you show the world.

And then somehow the melissa would be the Super-Ego which consists of two parts, the conscience and the ego-ideal. But it is hard to tell if this actually fits melissa, in fact it is easier to say that the SP is the conscience and Durga is the ego-ideal.

this theory doesn't flow as well as my first one does but it is still a possibility, and the flea doesnt rally fall into this theory anywhere but I guess if you look at it from a different perspective it might.

[Nightmare Tony]

Trout.

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6716&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ego+superego&start=135

Comes with an explaqnation without going into the Haloverse, thankyouvertymuch!

[Feros]

What am I not supposed to refrence the "halo-verse" to figure out a story? After all that is all I consider this, a story(loosely based around Halo) with a little bit more open endedness to it. I figured the ID Ego Super-Ego thing had already been mentioned but I didn't bother searching for the post on it or relating to the post I figured I would just tell my perspective on it, Does that make it trout? Either way the schizophrenia part of that thread makes sense from a human point of view however my "haloverse" oriented perspective is as valid if not more since an AI is not a person(even if it has a brain pattern behind it.

Either way I dislike this term "trout" it is basically a way of saying this has already been mentioned but it gives it an elietist air to it because if you don't know what it means you are forced to search for it on the forum.

Personally I won't use it.

[Nightmare Tony]

The link I gave in there was to the post which mentions that theory. There are some other ones, but I forget which, exactly.

The trick is to do the search before posting up the same theory over again. Which is the point of trout. But welcome, and that was your first...

Here is the link again, fyi.

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6716&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=ego+superego&start=135

but the idea is becoming more and more commonly accepted all around.

[krystyn]

[Aelith]

Could someone crate a smiley leaning on an arrow?

[thebruce]

or maybe a smiley with a bow and trout shoot the trout over to the next thread

[Digiwizzard]

Personally I was theorising that Melissa and SP are simply the components split up that make Durga, and are not just copies, as Durga exhibits behaviour that could be classified as SP and the OP. Anyway, the two personalities of the schism are the SP and Melissa. Melissa is the buissness end of the divide, a humourless goal driven military program with a sense of duty to her crew and multiple uses. She is the part of durga that refuses to reassign Jersey's dad to a post on earth. The SP is the personality of Durga, the "user friendly" interface. She does quite well at communicating with people, but she doesen't get as much accomplished as Melissa. She's the part of durga that likes "to find things".

Somehow when crashing onto the ILB server, Durga splintered into the two entities who then became self aware. Enter SPDR and the rest of the story.