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Kraichgauer
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27 Sep 2010, 11:07 pm

Recently, I've been thinking about the movie Bladerunner, or more specifically, the replicants. It struck me how, as their creator, Tyrel, described them, they only have a few short years to learn how to learn emotional responses that everyone else takes for granted. They sound a great deal like us, except it takes us pretty much a lifetime. Anyone else have an opinion?

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27 Sep 2010, 11:49 pm

best way to answer your question is with this video with clips from Bladerunner:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvxWp6AhbYU[/youtube]

(you weren't the first person to consider this, in any case.)


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29 Sep 2010, 10:46 am

They're robots. Applying human mental disorders to robots is kind of stupid.


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29 Sep 2010, 12:56 pm

Delirium wrote:
They're robots. Applying human mental disorders to robots is kind of stupid.


No, actually, they're not. They're artificial human beings who have the same emotions regular humans do, but don't have the life time to learn how to use them appropriately. After all, Roy Batty sincerely loved Pris, and he was able to find the humanity in himself to forgive Deckard after he killed her.

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29 Sep 2010, 3:31 pm

Delirium wrote:
They're robots. Applying human mental disorders to robots is kind of stupid.


They're not robots, they're biological. The Voight-Kampff test screens Replicants by measuring empathy and theory of mind.

It is quite applicable.

The implication made by the movie is that empathy is the quality that defines human beings.

I agree.


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29 Sep 2010, 3:44 pm

If I remember well the novel, there is a part where a character is asking himself if it would be possible to make the difference between a Replicant and a natural human suffering from heavy autism.


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04 Oct 2010, 9:19 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Recently, I've been thinking about the movie Bladerunner, or more specifically, the replicants. It struck me how, as their creator, Tyrel, described them, they only have a few short years to learn how to learn emotional responses that everyone else takes for granted. They sound a great deal like us, except it takes us pretty much a lifetime. Anyone else have an opinion?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer



I d have a similar opinion of the film, I actually saw the thing and the first thing that I wondered was if i'd pass the test used.