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WCDT strips 3741 to 3745 (May 14th - 18th 2018)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Masterof7s on 19 May 2018, 03:32 ---and you can't have emotion without internal biological organs.
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This is an assumption, not a statement of fact. The QC-verse AIs are sentient, self-aware beings, which have consistently been represented as having feelings and emotions, in a manner that has no parallel in our present-day computers and robots.
The notion that you need biological organs to have emotions is essentially an appeal to some sort of mystical vitalism. Leaving aside such supernatural considerations, human beings are biological machines, operating under the same physical laws as robots. Our bodies happen to work with blood, hormones etc. as a result of our evolution, but I don't think there's any reason to believe that is the only way a sentient being can work. The very fact that we, and other animals, have emotions at all suggests that they have survival value.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 May 2018, 07:55 ---There are humans with stroke damage that leaves all their cognition intact but destroys their ability to feel emotions.
They don't turn into Spock. They're mentally paralyzed instead. They can't make the simplest daily decisions.
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I'd really like to see your citations to that. In general, if you've lost that much of your sub-thalamic circuitry, you aren't mentally paralyzed; instead, your corpse is in a irreversible vegetative state which exhibits no cortical activity. You're dead -- all that's left is a zombie that looks like you used to.
fayelovesbubbles:
So I think Jeph must be using the pink background to convey that Faye and Bubbles are feeling the world disappear around them and they're completely wrapped up in each other. All they can feel is each other.
I really hope it isn't ruined by something like Sam seeing them, then running away giggling. That would suck. lol.
Mad Cat:
--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 19 May 2018, 11:29 ---if that's not what you're saying then I completely misunderstood you. Sorry!
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I meant that I was sure the butt grab was both the easiest and surest way to accomplishing the requisite lifting and securing of the apportaining load.
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: Mad Cat on 19 May 2018, 19:37 ---
--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 19 May 2018, 11:29 ---if that's not what you're saying then I completely misunderstood you. Sorry!
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I meant that I was sure the butt grab was both the easiest and surest way to accomplishing the requisite lifting and securing of the apportaining load.
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Also butt touching.
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