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Post by machiavelli33 on May 16, 2019 12:51:33 GMT
Plot twist: its jive.
And little ghost boy does speak jive.
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Post by DonDueed on May 16, 2019 13:49:01 GMT
So what is a soul, anyway? Arthur already has a personality, memories, goals, etc, and can even feel romantic love. So is a soul just an abstract kind of ... spark or something? I have the same question about the concept of 'soul' in the Harry Potterverse. There, it's possible for a soul to be subdivided and parts of it placed in inanimate objects. So just what is it, what's it made of, is it an agent that can act on its own, how does it get associated with a living being?
Endless questions which most authors just ignore or gloss over, or just assume the reader will fill in any blanks with their own ideas. Perhaps Tom will give a more definitive answer.
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Post by arf on May 16, 2019 13:52:28 GMT
I did have a speculation that both Annies would look at each other, nod, and grab Kat to carry her into the aether.
This is actually not far from the mark.
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Post by MarineMonarch on May 16, 2019 14:25:44 GMT
So what is a soul, anyway? Arthur already has a personality, memories, goals, etc, and can even feel romantic love. So is a soul just an abstract kind of ... spark or something? Well it could require all of those things, but going from what we know about Robot's changes, it seems the last step of transition from not-alive to alive is... sensation? The new bodies Kats created allow the robots to actually feel, in the tactile sense, temperature and texture, as well as pain, tiredness, growth. Before it was a computer taking in readings, while now it's a person experiencing feelings. And unlike Robot, who's alive-ness is still stored in a chip, Arthur now has a full brain, so he will genuinely experience things like a biological being does. That seems to be what the comic is suggesting is the last step to getting a soul. |
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Post by pyradonis on May 16, 2019 14:32:11 GMT
So what is a soul, anyway? Arthur already has a personality, memories, goals, etc, and can even feel romantic love. So is a soul just an abstract kind of ... spark or something? Maybe the difference is just that souls are created from the Ether and go back there (I hope the explanation will be a bit longer, though). |
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Post by avekmontenegro on May 16, 2019 14:47:36 GMT
Kat wont need the interpreter cause she can read machine code
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Post by ohthatone on May 16, 2019 14:55:14 GMT
I can't find the page but could it be a fancier form of the "code" City Face used as a puzzle in one of his story breaks?
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Post by tustin2121 on May 16, 2019 15:26:26 GMT
So what is a soul, anyway? Arthur already has a personality, memories, goals, etc, and can even feel romantic love. So is a soul just an abstract kind of ... spark or something? Well, according to the Detective Pikachu Movie, [ a human soul includes your mind, personality, body, anything on your body including clothing and personal affects, and any addictions your body might have, but NOT your memories]. So it could be whatever you want, basically. (This was the best way I could come up with to do highlightable spoiler tags, I do apologize if it somehow doesn't work.) |
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Post by netherdan on May 16, 2019 16:43:36 GMT
(This was the best way I could come up with to do highlightable spoiler tags, I do apologize if it somehow doesn't work.) Try with [span style="color:transparent;"]your spoiler here[/span]or just [spoiler]your spoiler here[/spoiler]should work |
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Post by tustin2121 on May 16, 2019 18:27:55 GMT
(This was the best way I could come up with to do highlightable spoiler tags, I do apologize if it somehow doesn't work.) Try with [span style="color:transparent;"]your spoiler here[/span]or just [spoiler]your spoiler here[/spoiler]should work The spoiler tags don't work, I tried those already. I'm already using transparent tags like so: [font color="transparent"][/font] Maybe if I double up it'll work doubly well.  |
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Post by Runningflame on May 16, 2019 19:20:44 GMT
'Ello 'ello!
Welcome to godhood. Please follow your designated cherubim for an orientation tour and remember to leave your mortality by the door.
[nitpick mode]
It's "cherub". "Cherubim" would be the plural.  [/nitpick mode]
Yes! Though I also think of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wind in the Door, where the characters encounter a creature that looks like an ever-shifting bunch of wings and eyes and fire and identifies itself as "a cherubim." One of the human characters objects that "cherubim" is plural--to which the creature replies, "I am practically plural... I am certainly not a cherub. I am a singular cherubim." (That doesn't have anything to do with this page, I just wanted to quote it. Love that book.)
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Post by keef on May 16, 2019 21:38:17 GMT
(This was the best way I could come up with to do highlightable spoiler tags, I do apologize if it somehow doesn't work.) I didn't know we had transparent and even transparent underlined fonts, cool! |
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Post by arkadi on May 17, 2019 0:03:15 GMT
If this guy is some kind of soul authority, I wonder whether he'll have something to say about the fact that there are two Annies now??
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Post by Gotolei on May 17, 2019 0:40:49 GMT
Try with [span style="color:transparent;"]your spoiler here[/span]or just [spoiler]your spoiler here[/spoiler]should work The spoiler tags don't work, I tried those already. I'm already using transparent tags like so: [font color="transparent"][/font] Maybe if I double up it'll work doubly well. Spoiler tags do work, they just show up as normal text in the preview editor because they don't have any styling unless you add it yourself* and proboards didn't think to add in anything to handle that. I've been using them just fine for quite some time in the index thread. *( totally not a shameless plug) weird spoiler but ok |
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Post by netherdan on May 17, 2019 2:10:26 GMT
The spoiler tags don't work, I tried those already. I'm already using transparent tags like so: [font color="transparent"][/font] Maybe if I double up it'll work doubly well. [img style="max-width:100%;" src="//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png" alt=" " Unfortunately "transparent" is not a valid color for the [font] proboards BBCode tag. It worked now because of the stylized [span]. Maybe you could stylize the font tag too, never tried that. You could have used [font color="white"] and it would work as intended without the span By the way, if you google "proboards bbcode list" and happen to stumble upon a support page listing them all, please refrain from using the most terrible of the bbcode tags. I won't tell its name here for fear of someone trying it and I don't want Tom limiting the forum tags because of bbcode abuse, but you will know it when you see it, such is its terribleness! |
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Post by pyradonis on May 17, 2019 2:49:28 GMT
By the way, if you google "proboards bbcode list" and happen to stumble upon a support page listing them all, please refrain from using the most terrible of the bbcode tags. I won't tell its name here for fear of someone trying it and I don't want Tom limiting the forum tags because of bbcode abuse, but you will know it when you see it, such is its terribleness! There is a Boxbot tag? I did not find it on the page.  |
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Post by netherdan on May 17, 2019 3:12:24 GMT
I didn't know we had transparent and even transparent underlined fonts, cool! Oh, you can have so much more with CSS styling. But it's a road we better not take. Especially not on the pages threads. pyradonis It's the marquee tag. Please don't tell anyone |
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Post by tustin2121 on May 17, 2019 15:56:53 GMT
The spoiler tags don't work, I tried those already. I'm already using transparent tags like so: [font color="transparent"][/font] Maybe if I double up it'll work doubly well. Spoiler tags do work, they just show up as normal text in the preview editor because they don't have any styling unless you add it yourself* and proboards didn't think to add in anything to handle that. I've been using them just fine for quite some time in the index thread. *( totally not a shameless plug) weird spoiler but ok Oh I HAVE seen those before... I'm stupid. Yes, I was expecting something in the preview that wasn't there... *facepalm* |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on May 17, 2019 16:37:26 GMT
I suspect that GC will not answer the "what is a soul" question, but today's comic does suggest the answer to the "is a mind different from a sufficiently-advanced detector (or computer)" question is "no."
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