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At the risk of getting too deep (haha, right) or in angering any serious Believer types (fuck off, christians), or in becoming a serious serious asshole, I just want to comment on the recent BSG episode, NOT to SPOIL, but to just add to the current issue that everyone is skirting around. I have absolutely no problem with the idea of machines developing emotions and personalities. Humans are essentially a bunch of chemicals reacting a certain way. most of our "emotions" can be broken down into one or two elements really. So who's to say an evolved series of cyborg/robots wouldn't?
That sounds dorky. But if people are going to argue the presence of 'souls' is the difference, then someone else could just as easily argue for the lack of souls in humans. Maybe we're just meat. In the BSG universe, they are supposed to survivors of an earlier race, from Earth presumably. So there is no theory of evolution as there is no evidence to trace backward. Have we even seen any animals? Hell no. They have technology instead. So it should be no suprise that they would find the Cylons (whom they built as slaves which everyone seems to be forgetting) so incredibly threatening. It implies something about all the 'humans' humanity. It puts their gods into question as well. These are religious people and the Cylons imply that maybe humans aren't so fucking special. If the Cylons are Toasters, then humans are, what? Hamburgers? Each race is only seeking survival after all. That's a pretty primitive, instinctual drive.
If the Cylons were really just machines, then why would the humans think torture would even work? Why not just reprogram them? They did build the original models. So for those who've been saying it's justifible to use torture on something that's just a machine? Uh...what? Torture implies emotion. Implies humanity. So what the fuck exactly are you condoning?
That sounds dorky. But if people are going to argue the presence of 'souls' is the difference, then someone else could just as easily argue for the lack of souls in humans. Maybe we're just meat. In the BSG universe, they are supposed to survivors of an earlier race, from Earth presumably. So there is no theory of evolution as there is no evidence to trace backward. Have we even seen any animals? Hell no. They have technology instead. So it should be no suprise that they would find the Cylons (whom they built as slaves which everyone seems to be forgetting) so incredibly threatening. It implies something about all the 'humans' humanity. It puts their gods into question as well. These are religious people and the Cylons imply that maybe humans aren't so fucking special. If the Cylons are Toasters, then humans are, what? Hamburgers? Each race is only seeking survival after all. That's a pretty primitive, instinctual drive.
If the Cylons were really just machines, then why would the humans think torture would even work? Why not just reprogram them? They did build the original models. So for those who've been saying it's justifible to use torture on something that's just a machine? Uh...what? Torture implies emotion. Implies humanity. So what the fuck exactly are you condoning?
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