Yeah, I felt that she was portrayed as undeniably human, and I didn't think of her as a machine either.
Looking back into this hypothetical world, the inevitable debate over whether or not Kara is a human would be hideous. There's the faction that thinks that humanity is determined by being born, i.e. an animal. Then there's the faction that thinks that the ability to think and reason like a human makes humanity. And then the one that thinks that free will, in addition to reason, makes humanity. And then eventually you'd have the robot separatists. And then those who believe that Kara is an abomination and that her creators are playing in God's domain, etc etc etc...
The assembly guy's "My God..." at the end actually made me think of Frankenstein once I thought about it for a second. I interpreted it as "My God, what have I done, I built something alive," and wondered if a Frankenstein-esque "I must destroy the abomination" followed. Eurgh. I'm freaking myself out. And then there's the question... if he had disassembled her, is she human enough for it to be considered murder? Maybe not from a legal standpoint, but what would the assembly guy have thought about doing it?
The whole idea of humanoid domestic robots creeps me out. I'm cool with domestic robots that look like, I don't know, a vacuum cleaner with arms (or whatever), but the idea that we'd want an unthinking slave that looks like us seems abhorrent.
(I have been thinking about this video all morning. Each question gives birth to more and more.)
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Date: 2012-03-09 06:44 pm (UTC)Looking back into this hypothetical world, the inevitable debate over whether or not Kara is a human would be hideous. There's the faction that thinks that humanity is determined by being born, i.e. an animal. Then there's the faction that thinks that the ability to think and reason like a human makes humanity. And then the one that thinks that free will, in addition to reason, makes humanity. And then eventually you'd have the robot separatists. And then those who believe that Kara is an abomination and that her creators are playing in God's domain, etc etc etc...
The assembly guy's "My God..." at the end actually made me think of Frankenstein once I thought about it for a second. I interpreted it as "My God, what have I done, I built something alive," and wondered if a Frankenstein-esque "I must destroy the abomination" followed. Eurgh. I'm freaking myself out. And then there's the question... if he had disassembled her, is she human enough for it to be considered murder? Maybe not from a legal standpoint, but what would the assembly guy have thought about doing it?
The whole idea of humanoid domestic robots creeps me out. I'm cool with domestic robots that look like, I don't know, a vacuum cleaner with arms (or whatever), but the idea that we'd want an unthinking slave that looks like us seems abhorrent.
(I have been thinking about this video all morning. Each question gives birth to more and more.)