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Post by zbeeblebrox on Dec 16, 2015 8:19:51 GMT
Is there a word for a reverse cyborg? Orgbot maybe? I need the forum's help with creating an appropriate moniker! For I am taking a class on posthumanism next semester for kicks, and I plan to write at least one essay on Gunnerkrigg Court's reverse transhumanism. Perhaps I'll compare/contrast with Dresden Codak... Ooo! Ooo! How about calling them: Droidganics! That's way catchier. I think even though yes, they're technically also cyborgs, the popular lexicon will naturally search for a specialized term for them in any future where they become a thing. People in robotics or AI research wouldn't use it in a technical capacity, but it's helpful for laypersons, where a human with a Pacemaker and a robot with an organic arm don't feel like the same thing. |
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Post by marv on Dec 16, 2015 10:36:50 GMT
"Life is pain, Princess. Anyone who says differently is selling something."
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Post by corvis on Dec 23, 2015 19:23:19 GMT
He's not a pain-seeker. Look how it took minutes, maybe even seconds, for him to return to the lab to have his finger fixed. He recognizes that pain is a suboptimal state, all right. I would be surprised if his pain receptor system was as buggy, laggy, and limited as our own nervous system. With a computer's perceptions, incredibly faster than a human's, he experiences it for far more "time cycles" than we do, in any event. Plenty of time to study the phenomenon without incurring needless downtime. But he is. Having returned to the lab to have his finger bandaged, he is now shown bashing the bandaged finger against something to experience the sensation again. I believe that the delay you mention was the result of being overwhelmed by the novel sensation, and/or just standing there and experiencing/exploring/wallowing in it, until he noticed the diminished function that went with it. So he went to have that repaired, and found out how one is connected to the other... and seems willing to accept the trade-off in order to feel that intensely again. (Robot as masochist?) No, no, he was just remembering what happened to break it in the first place. |
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Post by tortoise on Dec 26, 2015 15:28:21 GMT
Has anybody else noticed that Shadow is huge now? He was knee height a year or two ago and now he's as tall as Robot.
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