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- From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
- Subject: Re: BR-Replicants and Pain
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.144229.5506@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <mwojcik-161192124144@college23.sas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 14:42:29 GMT
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- In article <mwojcik-161192124144@college23.sas.upenn.edu>, mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) writes:
- |> 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?
-
- Interesting point. Perhaps the replicants are enhanced so that they do
- not feel extreme heat and cold (liquid nitrogen, boiling water etc.)
- EXTERNALLY. But if their internals are affected they do feel pain,
- ie. bullets in Pris, Roy's loss of motor control, etc..
-
- |>
- |> 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.
-
- I still say just the fact that every replicant can kick the sh*t out
- of Deckard means he cannot possibly be a replicant.
-
- |>
- |> 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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