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Who is Emily Azuma?
Storel:
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--- Quote from: Akima on 22 Sep 2017, 17:34 ---I suspect that the TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man" (based on the 1972 novel "Cyborg"), and "The Bionic Woman" probably did most to place the cyborg in popular culture.
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There was this campy SF-flick in '77 about a bunch of plucky galactic Rebels hunted by an evil Cyborg ...
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Star Wars never once used the word "cyborg", though, so it did nothing to popularize the term. And honestly, you have no idea what's up with Darth Vader just from seeing that first movie -- I for one thought it was just some fancy armor, like what the stormtroopers wore but more ominous looking. So the movie didn't really popularize the concept of cyborgs, either.
BenRG:
Yeah, the fact that Vader was about 50% prosthetic wasn't really addressed until Episode VI and then only by implication. Obi-Wan called him 'more machine than human' and, when the Emperor hits him with force lightning, you can see the 'bones' of his prosthetic limbs and the metallic reinforcements to his spine fluorescing.
BenRG:
Another possibility that occurs to me: Emily has silicon pathways in her brain. Specifically, she had an experimental procedure with a neural network array being implanted into her skull, augmenting most of her brain processes, in an attempt to cure her non-neuronormative traits. The procedure didn't work but it left her with a high level of intuitive understanding for AIs and digital logic. Additionally, because the implanted array helps her process sensory data (in an attempt to help her have perceptions of the universe that are more mainstream), she tends to experience 'echos' of how AIs would interpret some sensory data. It also lets her process sensory data to help her do things like mimic dog whistles with her voice.
She isn't a 'cyborg' in the complete sense of the word. She's an electronically-augmented human. However, in the event she may have a serious accident, the neural net could act as a foundation stone upon which broader and more overt prosthesis could be connected up directly to her brain.
I think that this suggestion is a bit dark for Jeph in QC but it it another valid interpretation of the evidence as presented to date.
Case:
--- Quote from: Storel on 24 Sep 2017, 00:58 ---Star Wars never once used the word "cyborg", though, so it did nothing to popularize the term. And honestly, you have no idea what's up with Darth Vader just from seeing that first movie -- I for one thought it was just some fancy armor, like what the stormtroopers wore but more ominous looking. So the movie didn't really popularize the concept of cyborgs, either.
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No, it didn't use 'cyborg', and yes, Ep. IV probably didn't do much to popularize the term - though it isn't true that it contained no indication about it being 'more than just fancy armour':
The ... Breathing
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_PZGECoJT0
Back then, what made an impression on me was hus name more than anything else: To childhood-case, it sounded like "Draht Vater" (German: Draht = wire, Vater = Father), and while grown-up Case agrees that Wirefather makes no sense whatsoever, childhood-case couldn't have cared less about scary stuff making no sense when it did a bang-up job sounding ominous and menacing. Apparently, that conjecture wasn't purely accidental: 'Vader' was a deliberate reference to the Dutch word for 'father' - which is, indeed, vader, although the Dutch pronunciation is much closer to the English 'Father' than ... Vader.
Is it cold in here?:
>The procedure didn't work but it left her with a high level of intuitive understanding for AIs and digital logic
Hmm. There was a gaping gap in that understanding. Momo had to explain to Emily that companion-grade AIs experience reality at about the same subjective pace as organics do.
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