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- From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
- Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
- Subject: Re: BR-Replicants and Pain
- Message-ID: <5DieuB6w165w@jybox.jyu.fi>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:50:03 EET
- References: <mwojcik-161192124144@college23.sas.upenn.edu>
- Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox
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- mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) writes:
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- > 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?
-
- I'd say they do feel pain (which would be necessary for any organism that can
- be damaged), but are much tougher than humans: they can take more temperature
- extremes (from -195C of boiling N2 to +100C of boiling H2O) and don't go into
- shock as easily as humans (as with multiple gun wounds). I've always thought
- that Pris went into some kind of a short circuit condition instead of feeling
- "real" pain and that Roy's nail-in-hand was to stop some kind of a cramp.
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