There’s a metaphysical thought experiment I like called The Ship of Theseus, which I’m not going to explain to you because a.) I’m sure you already know it and b.) It’s casual Friday, not played-out philosophy Friday. That is next week. Anyway, this concept seems to have a legacy in Per Aspera, a story-stuffed strategy offering from Tl n Industries and Raw Fury, about terraforming the planet Mars as an artificial consciousness. In the trailer below, you can hear a fuzzy speech-giver talk about consciousness-bots succeeding where mankind have failed. Turn your soon-to-be-obsolescent jelly orbs toward the teaser:
Per Aspera lets you build a colony on Mars, without useless humans holding you back
