Scarfe wrote:That always bugged me about Transformers, philosophically speaking. Sometimes they seem to have distinct, unalterable personality traits; at other times, they can be simply reprogrammed into different people. Weren't the Constructicons reprogrammed Autobots?
So the spark does not confer any personality or behaviour? It simply comes down to circuits and programming? Does that mean with the right modifications, Optimus Prime can be Megatron and vice versa?
QFTNight Raid wrote:Dudes, we can't even quantify our own souls. How the heck can we quantify theirs?
As for personalities, that has as much to do with our experiences as anything else. The stuff that happens to us during our lives shapes who we are. So you can't really program a personality. You can alter it, maybe...
Magnimus wrote:That always bugged me about Transformers, philosophically speaking. Sometimes they seem to have distinct, unalterable personality traits; at other times, they can be simply reprogrammed into different people.
And some of it is disease too. Tumors, Alzheimer's, drugs, whatever will do it also. Rabies will turn the most docile animal (or human) into a vicious creature, and vice-versa. Probably a lot of the time it is temperary, sometimes it is not. If you stick electrodes into certain parts of the brain and give them short jolts, you can activate some emotions like anger or fear and whatever.Caelus wrote:Magnimus wrote:That always bugged me about Transformers, philosophically speaking. Sometimes they seem to have distinct, unalterable personality traits; at other times, they can be simply reprogrammed into different people.
Strictly speaking, humans can be reprogrammed too. The most 'successful' cases have been accidents (Phineas Gage), but we can do it intentionally to some small extent. If we were on par with TFs scientifically we could probaby do really scary stuff.
Doesn't require alterations to the soul (Spark), just the brain (Lasercore/CPU).
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