This sort of hits on something that I've been thinking for a while--that the main differences between humans and cylons (other than... the cylons being responsible for killing 99.9% of the humans ;-)) are cultural, now that the download/immortality factor has been taken away. Hmm. I guess I'm alone in my idea. I don't think of the Cylons as human. At all. I don't know. I do think they are definitely being changed through contacts with humans. What I respect about aliens is their very alienness. I don't even know if I could assess an alien properly because all my thoughts come from my species-specific perspective.
Maybe if we met earlier versions of ourselves would see them as foreign. Probably. It's an interesting thought. When do humans become human? What makes one human? Who gets to judge when it happens? Of the many things I will always remember about this show, one is how you expressed that Pinocchio wanted to become a real boy. Who decides when someone is really real?
Where is the super-soaker? I've gone all existential, I think. :-) And maybe off topic from your questions. I do think it's a species thing. When Eight jacks into the raptor's systems that is so not a human thing to do. She's got some fancy technology under her skin.
As for being individuals, well I guess I see the similarities among models, rather than their differences. I don't know why. I guess I'm fascinated more with their alienness and former ability to share conciousness, than their quest to become individuals. But I guess that's just me. :-)
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Hmm. I guess I'm alone in my idea. I don't think of the Cylons as human. At all. I don't know. I do think they are definitely being changed through contacts with humans. What I respect about aliens is their very alienness. I don't even know if I could assess an alien properly because all my thoughts come from my species-specific perspective.
Maybe if we met earlier versions of ourselves would see them as foreign. Probably. It's an interesting thought. When do humans become human? What makes one human? Who gets to judge when it happens? Of the many things I will always remember about this show, one is how you expressed that Pinocchio wanted to become a real boy. Who decides when someone is really real?
Where is the super-soaker? I've gone all existential, I think. :-) And maybe off topic from your questions. I do think it's a species thing. When Eight jacks into the raptor's systems that is so not a human thing to do. She's got some fancy technology under her skin.
As for being individuals, well I guess I see the similarities among models, rather than their differences. I don't know why. I guess I'm fascinated more with their alienness and former ability to share conciousness, than their quest to become individuals. But I guess that's just me. :-)