Androids + Emotions
I Moon Girl
MemberChestbursterOctober 14, 2017I've gotten into discussions before about androids and emotions. I've just finished reading Alien: Covenant Origins and something related to android and emotions is in the book. Does this settle the fact that androids cannot feel emotions, but only can mimic them? Or is this just misunderstood work done by scientist which the problem, which is that androids actually can feel emotions, manifests itself in Alien: Covenant. I feel like the emotions Walter seems to express in Alien: Covenant can be easily explained in another perspective to show that emotions cannot be felt by androids, or at least very little emotion can. What does emotions + androids mean when we throw David in the mix? David seems convinced that he can feel emotions, or is he just mimicking emotions in an attempt to feel them? Maybe it is all just in David's head?
Regardless if androids are capable of developing emotions unpredictably, the Walter models were never apparently meant to feel emotions. Maybe Walter develops some emotions because he is the first Walter model so maybe the science is misunderstood? Still, Walter was not the first android ever created. I'm sure android programmers encountered some form of problem with emotions before Walter since Walter is so advanced. Most likely androids + emotions have been studied with intense care when the technology became available. With that knowledge, androids could really be human-like. With this, why couldn't the scientists have figured out a way to prevent emotions from occurring in androids.
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As Daniels is talking to Walter after just meeting him, she talks about the events that were happening on Earth that Walter heard about. After she briefly explained to him the situations, Walter replied, "With humans, emotion invariably enters into decision making." He turned wistful. "I can mimic emotions. Perfectly. Would you like to see me cry? There is a saying among the scientific community. 'Even an android can cry.'"
"Not now." They turned another corner. "I'll take your word for it. Or we'll wait until an appropriate situation presents itself and you can amaze everyone else with a calculated demonstration of deeply felt empathy."
He looked over at her. "I am also fully able to recognize sarcasm, when it is employed."
She threw up her hands. "Okay, I admit it. You're as human as they can make you. Maybe more human than some of the men I've known."
"Or maybe less," he commented thoughtfully.
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If we pull info from the Bladerunner universe, androids required memories to develop proper human emotions and they also needed time to correctly interpret and understand their emotions. As far as we know, androids in the Alien universe don't have memories to base emotions on.
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Was it a test to provoke an emotional response?
Homosexuality, in an Alien movie, what a novel concept (sarcasm alert)
In Alien it was meant to be inferred that both Ripley and Lambert were bi-sexual, and that the crew of the Nostromo was 'freeloving', a concept also inferred in the first two Terminator movies, but never actually mention until Terminator Salvation.
The Alien while seemingly feminine in its slender form has, quite literally a Penis for a head.
Vasquez, a woman with bigger balls than any of her comrades.
Fury-161, a prison complex entirely populated by men.
But here's the noodlebaker...
Weyland devises synthetic technology and his ultimate creation is a synthetic, virtually immortal and Aryan male. Whereas most men given access to such technology would likely have created the first true synthetic to be female, for both nurturing and sexual reasons. Is Peter Weyland gay, and having been created by him and nurtured by him is David also Gay? Was Victor Frankenstein gay?
