You didn't state emergence as a criterion for consciousness, and frankly I don't agree.
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You think humans aren't just slaves to impulses?
Right. So how much insight do you really have into David's level of complexity? The movie doesn't say anything one way or the other.
That way being decidedly ironic.
Do you think there's something qualitatively different between an organic and inorganic machine?
No, which is bleak.
I think the ending is really rather meta.
This is like saying a movie where a junkie finally gets his last dose of heroin from the hands of a dead person has a happy ending.
Eh, life is just complex systems playing out their "design". The distinction between us and a sufficiently complex machine would be largely sentimental.
It's really nice on Blu-ray. Great quality - and one disc for the whole season.
I'll check it out. Aside from the ear-clawing "Touchy!" I find their music uniformly enjoyable.
I don't even dislike it much, really, it's just that after blissful tracks like Superblast!, Sweetness and Light, Breeze, Desire Lines and Lovelife (the Split track), that final album just felt so… pedestrian. It's perfectly good at what it is, but the earlier albums were just a lot better.
a-ha had a quite few albums' worth of a career outside of America. Pick up Scoundrel Days if you've never heard it.
There are one or two tracks I enjoy off Lovelife, but I feel like they had lost everything distinctive and creative about their sound at that point. There's a point where making music that uses simple pop as a basis for your creativity becomes just making simple pop, and while Split walked that line, Lovelife hopped…
Man, Lush's last album was so shit compared to their earlier ones. A total embarrassment.
It gets even worse with the number of people who have created unassailable imaginary identities (otherkin, tucutes, headmates etc) and expect the full tolerance parade when they're basically stealing the compassion limelight and gaining "privilege" from the genuinely disabled, disadvantaged, differently-oriented,…
I think "slag" was the pejorative term for them. Which is funny if you're from a non-American English-speaking country.
Pretty much.
That's fantastic. Thanks for the link.