I've actually been meaning to raise the whole singing/humming thing as an issue (and my re-read is stalled waiting for me to do it, because the point I noticed was just before the AM/Awn scene aboard Justice of Toren, and I really don't want to go there).
When One Esk (and Awn), come back aboard JoT, there is a scene in the Decade Room the next morning (Kindle Loc 2370-ish) where various lieutenants are being offensive towards Awn in her absence, and, in the general banter, one of them notes that One Esk is not humming, and the comment is made that "It really is One Esk, maybe Awn broke it of it's bad habits".
The significance here is that it means the singing is specific to One Esk, and only One Esk, not to any other decade aboard JoT, and not to JoT itself. The implication is that One Esk/JoT has an identity separate to JoT alone, and certainly to Any-Other-Decade/JoT. Which to me heavily implies that Breq is not so much all that is left of JoT, but all that is left of One Esk/JoT, a particular, not very typical, aspect of JoT. Which implies that AIs may have semi-independent sub-identities and raises all kinds of interesting issues about synchronizing them. And doesn't that reflect interestingly on Aanander Mianaai's problems....
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Date: 2014-11-21 07:33 pm (UTC)When One Esk (and Awn), come back aboard JoT, there is a scene in the Decade Room the next morning (Kindle Loc 2370-ish) where various lieutenants are being offensive towards Awn in her absence, and, in the general banter, one of them notes that One Esk is not humming, and the comment is made that "It really is One Esk, maybe Awn broke it of it's bad habits".
The significance here is that it means the singing is specific to One Esk, and only One Esk, not to any other decade aboard JoT, and not to JoT itself. The implication is that One Esk/JoT has an identity separate to JoT alone, and certainly to Any-Other-Decade/JoT. Which to me heavily implies that Breq is not so much all that is left of JoT, but all that is left of One Esk/JoT, a particular, not very typical, aspect of JoT. Which implies that AIs may have semi-independent sub-identities and raises all kinds of interesting issues about synchronizing them. And doesn't that reflect interestingly on Aanander Mianaai's problems....