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Robot/Andriod Lit and Movies
Lines:
--- Quote from: satsugaikaze on 03 Sep 2010, 19:43 ---Yeah but when you're expected to read through it multiple times over the course of a few months, memorise lines and explore deep and meaningful topics to just condense it into 1100 words of drivel to write in a 40min section of an exam
Your appreciation of the thing diminishes somewhat after a few reads.
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This will ruin pretty much every good book.
HiFranc:
I just remembered another film you might be interested in looking up:
Bicentennial Man explores where humanity ends and machine begins. Basically, in the future people buy AI robots as servants. One of them starts developing a personality.
Lines:
I have seen that, but it's been years, so I will look it up again!
jimbunny:
Perhaps on the margin of your topic, but William Gibson's second trilogy of novels - Virtual Light, Idoru, and All Tomorrow's Parties - starting with the second one, involve a character who presents as a hologram. The ending of the third book, concerning her (I really can't give it away!) provides some good food for thought.
What's your project about? Mind/body distinctions? Technology?
Lines:
Mostly whether or not something has to be alive to experience emotion and what it means to be "human". Such as, if you look like a human and act like one but are not really alive, does it mean you can still experience things like a human does? Can you feel loss, curiosity, joy, confusion, etc. if you are just a collection of mechanical parts? I kind of touched on that when I was doing art projects with toys (specifically Lego people), but now I'm actually going to be making (nonfunctioning) robots and making them go through different emotions.
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