http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/2006/10/11/the-adolescence-of-sentience/ Each week we discuss the happenings and storyline of Battlestar Galactica in a multi-host talk-radio-style format. This podcast is spoiler-free, though we do discuss information from all current broadcast episodes. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/2006/10/11/the-adolescence-of-sentience/#comment-76 Sean Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:40:37 +0000 http://galacticawatercooler.com/2006/10/11/the-adolescence-of-sentience/#comment-76 Great point Jay! Yeah the perpetual floating and wishing you were dead is I think akin the the whole boxing thing. You exist but you are stuck in limbo...gives me the shudders to think about. Great insight sir! Great point Jay! Yeah the perpetual floating and wishing you were dead is I think akin the the whole boxing thing. You exist but you are stuck in limbo…gives me the shudders to think about. Great insight sir!

]]> http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/2006/10/11/the-adolescence-of-sentience/#comment-73 Jay Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:39:04 +0000 http://galacticawatercooler.com/2006/10/11/the-adolescence-of-sentience/#comment-73 On this cylon on cylon violence thing. We all know that Cylons feel pain. This was evident in the six model on pegasus. She was tortured, raped and obviously broken emotionally and physically damaged. This means that they must feel pain in one way or another. When Caprica 6 was shot in the head, did she feel pain? When Caprica 6 bashed in deannas head, did she feel pain(deanna)? If so this opens a whole can of worms. If they do feel pain, would this instill a fear of dying? Even though they are reborn, would they fear the pain of death? When 6 was being torutred on pegasus, she asked to be killed. Obviously she was in pain. So, this pain would in theory affect the way Cylons, at least the flesh ones, would act in battle. They must be able to fear the pain of being shot, wounded and eventually killed. When Caprica 6 is downloaded and wakes uop after being shot in the head, would she say "Ouch that hurt, I am gonna get revenge on Doral for shooting me". If so then would Cylons distrust each other, or even turn on each other in fear of the pain of dying? Also when Roslin sent Leobin ut the airlock, maybe his fear wasn't of dying and being too far to download. Maybe his fear was of not dying, but simply spending eternity floating in limbo in space. Do human cylons die in space without air? If not, then wouldn't he spend eternity floating and wishing he were dead and downloaded? That would scare me. On this cylon on cylon violence thing. We all know that Cylons feel pain. This was evident in the six model on pegasus. She was tortured, raped and obviously broken emotionally and physically damaged. This means that they must feel pain in one way or another. When Caprica 6 was shot in the head, did she feel pain? When Caprica 6 bashed in deannas head, did she feel pain(deanna)? If so this opens a whole can of worms. If they do feel pain, would this instill a fear of dying? Even though they are reborn, would they fear the pain of death? When 6 was being torutred on pegasus, she asked to be killed. Obviously she was in pain. So, this pain would in theory affect the way Cylons, at least the flesh ones, would act in battle. They must be able to fear the pain of being shot, wounded and eventually killed. When Caprica 6 is downloaded and wakes uop after being shot in the head, would she say “Ouch that hurt, I am gonna get revenge on Doral for shooting me”. If so then would Cylons distrust each other, or even turn on each other in fear of the pain of dying? Also when Roslin sent Leobin ut the airlock, maybe his fear wasn’t of dying and being too far to download. Maybe his fear was of not dying, but simply spending eternity floating in limbo in space. Do human cylons die in space without air? If not, then wouldn’t he spend eternity floating and wishing he were dead and downloaded? That would scare me.

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