The Four F's are a behavioral shorthand used by Serelith, Alistair, and Dr. Morgan Ellis for four basic drives: feeding, fighting, fleeing, and reproduction.
The crew uses the framework while trying to understand the shadow creature's need for electricity and its reactions to threat. Its attempts to feed, attack, escape, and preserve itself raise the question of whether apparently instinctive behavior can also indicate fear, intelligence, or personhood.
The phrase is an explanatory model, not a complete scientific test for sentience.
¶ Appearances
¶ See Also
- Serelith — Serelith appears in the documented history of The Four F's; Serelith is a Fahilotian seer, bridge officer, strategist, and principal character whose foresight reaches roughly four hours into possible futures.
- Alistair — Alistair appears in the documented history of The Four F's; Alistair is a free artificial person, bridge officer, systems specialist, and acting captain aboard Dominatrix II.
- Dr. Morgan Ellis — Dr. Morgan Ellis appears in the documented history of The Four F's; Dr.
- Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis — Starship Dominatrix: Apotheosis appears in the documented history of The Four F's; The fourth Starship Dominatrix novel brings Jack and the crew into a final conflict with X3, corrupted power, coercion, memory, and belief.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel appears in the documented history of The Four F's; The third Starship Dominatrix novel follows the crew through rival AI nations, the War of Flesh and Steel, and the consequences of corrupted Talonorium.
- U's Spiritual Belief — Both belong to the lore record; U's belief that an artificial mind can enter quantum communion with a universal field of knowledge.
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