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- From: spike@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen Pike)
- Subject: Re: BR-Replicants and Pain
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:33:39 GMT
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- Michael Wojcik (mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
- : I just watched Blade Runner (not the DC) over the weekend. I tried to keep
- : the recent "Is Deckard a replicant?" thread out of my mind (not that I read
- : all of it), and the question I have is this...
- :
- : Do replicants feel pain? In several scenes (the eye shop, Priss's egg), the
- : replicants intentionally demonstrate their absence of pain, and when
- : Deckard wastes the first replicant, she keeps running with several bullet
- : holes in her. Yet near the end, Priss is flailing around in GREAT pain, and
- : when Roy is attempting to ward off the tissue necrosis, he pushes a nail
- : through his hand to, I guess, "stimulate" it into functioning. Can you
- : say...Inconsistant?
- :
- : OK. The relevance to the IDAR? thread. If replicants either feel no pain,
- : have a high tolerance for pain, or can control WHEN they feel pain, then
- : Deckard is not a replicant since he obviously feels *something* when Roy
- : breaks his fingers.
- :
- : Oh boy, I hope I didn't open a can of worms again. Is there a logically
- : ordered, edited, rewriten paper based on the IDAR? thread floating around
- : the nets somewhere? Can someone email it to me? please?
- :
- : PS The same day I watched BR, Ladyhawke was on later that afternoon.
- : Gotta love that Rutger Hauer!
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