Yatima, an Orphan Mind of the Konishi Polisi is an excellent example of a Synthetic Intelligence as a main character. Ve's alien but you don't really notice cau

Yatima, an Orphan Mind of the Konishi Polisi is an excellent example of a Synthetic Intelligence as a main character. Ve's alien but you don't really notice cause the writing is so good. The remaining fields — where no changes to the seed had yet been tested, and no predictions could be made — were classified as indeterminate. Here, the one tried code, the known landmark, was shown as grey against white: a mountain peak protruding through a band of clouds which concealed everything to the east or west of it. No more detail could be resolved from afar; whatever lay beneath the clouds could only be discovered firsthand. Whenever the conceptory created an orphan, it set all the benignly mutable trait fields to valid codes chosen at random, since there were no parents to mimic or please. Then it selected a thousand indeterminate fields, and treated them in much the same fashion: throwing a thousand quantum dice to choose a random path through terra incognita. Every orphan was an explorer, sent to map uncharted territory. And every orphan was the uncharted territory itself http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/DIASPORA/01/Orphano...