Y’know, if I recall right, Dr. Lee and Dr. Jones put Nick’s brain in the meat body. Wouldn’t that make the helicopter the peripheral, no matter what Nick claims? (Unless Dr. Lee has made further modifications out of our sight…)
Society also decided once upon a time that women were incapable of rationality and couldn’t be trusted with rights, votes, property, or agency.
Society also decided once upon a time that owning people as property was not only acceptable, but even moral, natural, and desireable.
Society also decided once upon a time that the best way to govern was for a warlord to claim that they are the descendant of a god or otherwise endowed with a divine right to practice absolute rule over others, kill or cow all their competitors, and have their children inherit their status and power regardless of competency or fitness for the task, and anyone who questioned that was a traitor.
It turns out that society decides a lot of dumb, wrong, and destructive things.
…which is, of course, not to say that fact somehow justifies doing OTHER dumb, wrong, or detructive things in turn. It’s just noting that sometimes we overcorrect.
Some excellent examples of the problem. Society is not an authority on anything, but somehow society has managed to have the authority on a great many things.
No, which is why it is extremely questionable to say the least to call the helicopter that he controls remotely the real him. He was brainwashed into thinking so, and it remains to be seen if he will recover from that now that he has a real body again. I wonder exactly how Virginia feels about him saying that he isn’t really there with her right now?
Sweetheart could probably get his attention by asking if he didn’t want to rescue Tip, but perhaps she wants to avoid broadcasting that on radio frequencies (you never know when the secret government is listening).
Sweetheart could fire him, but they’ve all gone rogue now.
Which *would* simplify the paperwork…
Awww, so sweet!
Methinks Mr. Zerhakker is far more than two miles away!
He’s with Virginia, which arguably is his idea of Heaven.
If we presume that Stevie Wonder’s estimation is accurate, Nick is ten zillion light years away.
Somewhere in Boston, probably around Boston Common, I’m pretty sure.
Yeah, that’s either the Common or the Public Garden across the street.
Got it. They’re on the bridge in Boston Public Garden.
By the limits of strict geography, you are probably correct. Mentally and emotionally, they are closer to Mr. Wonder’s estimate.
“screw that” seems like a rather weak expletive for Nick. His attention must be on that really important shit.
He currently has less blood focused in his cranial region.
Oh yeah, I forgot that those two, as a certain gun-toting maniac once put it, finally goinked.
Yeah, but when she said it, she was so adorable… in her own gun-toting, maniacal way.
Y’know, if I recall right, Dr. Lee and Dr. Jones put Nick’s brain in the meat body. Wouldn’t that make the helicopter the peripheral, no matter what Nick claims? (Unless Dr. Lee has made further modifications out of our sight…)
Apparently you are what you identify as….
You are the rubber hand?
Categorically you aren’t, but that’s okay. We all delude ourselves in different ways.
That depends on what you mean when you say ‘you are’. What is being? How do we define the self?
Don’t try to use biology as an argument. Society has already decided that biology has nothing to do with it.
Society also decided once upon a time that women were incapable of rationality and couldn’t be trusted with rights, votes, property, or agency.
Society also decided once upon a time that owning people as property was not only acceptable, but even moral, natural, and desireable.
Society also decided once upon a time that the best way to govern was for a warlord to claim that they are the descendant of a god or otherwise endowed with a divine right to practice absolute rule over others, kill or cow all their competitors, and have their children inherit their status and power regardless of competency or fitness for the task, and anyone who questioned that was a traitor.
It turns out that society decides a lot of dumb, wrong, and destructive things.
…which is, of course, not to say that fact somehow justifies doing OTHER dumb, wrong, or detructive things in turn. It’s just noting that sometimes we overcorrect.
Some excellent examples of the problem. Society is not an authority on anything, but somehow society has managed to have the authority on a great many things.
The Whirligig is his real body, he just keeps the control device elsewhere.
If you have an RC car, you wouldn’t call the remote the “real car,” right?
No, which is why it is extremely questionable to say the least to call the helicopter that he controls remotely the real him. He was brainwashed into thinking so, and it remains to be seen if he will recover from that now that he has a real body again. I wonder exactly how Virginia feels about him saying that he isn’t really there with her right now?
Sweetheart could probably get his attention by asking if he didn’t want to rescue Tip, but perhaps she wants to avoid broadcasting that on radio frequencies (you never know when the secret government is listening).