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Post by virus on Mar 25, 2011 11:06:01 GMT -5
If human uploading were to be used I can see it being most useful to the resistance as a way of preserving human intelligence in a way that matches the machine's ability to create backups. If this were to be part of the story I can definitely see John Henry being the one to offer this, what with him bringing this up in season 2 and the whole Jesus metaphor thing.
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Post by allergygal on Mar 26, 2011 2:33:56 GMT -5
Perhaps Skynet can't figure out the inter working of memories and how the human mind works. They were a un-intended consequence of her getting broken. Instead Skynet was trying to use it to replicate what she would do, think and feel. They can input and receive output but they can't see how it works. This is actually something very well known in both computer science and cybernetics it's known as a Black-box. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_boxSkynet was definitely trying to understand how humans "tick"; we know that much from the story about Fisher. But your theory is still too thin for me. We were shown nothing to indicate that Allison's brain had been experimented on. When it comes to Cameron and Allison, though, I don't see it at all. I think Cameron's emotional Allison memories were simply the result of the interrogation. Cameron was recalling information and mimicking the emotional responses. But since she was glitched, she thought she was Allison and that those memories were hers. If human uploading were to be used I can see it being most useful to the resistance as a way of preserving human intelligence in a way that matches the machine's ability to create backups. If this were to be part of the story I can definitely see John Henry being the one to offer this, what with him bringing this up in season 2 and the whole Jesus metaphor thing. Going forward in the story, I think it's likely the show would've gone down that path in some way because there were a lot of hints about Skynet's interest in the human brain (being able to preserve or manipulate it). John Henry might be the one to try to develop a way to download the human brain. We know he saw death as both a bad thing (Ellison told him human life is sacred) and a human flaw (heaven has a hardware problem).
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Post by erebus on May 4, 2011 14:38:13 GMT -5
I agree with the idea that Cameron was NOT experiencing flashbacks of Allison's actual memories. I think that because of the damage to her chip her processor could have started behaving more like our brains, which function with what has been termed the "illusion of memory", recreating specific past events by using plausible imagery and elements from other memories (which is true, by the way - most of your memories are fiction). Barriers may have been missing or been corrupted, disrupting the sequential patterns of her processing and producing something more akin to the human "stream of consciousness", processed through a matrix that was provided, at the moment of breakdown, by the association of an object to another focal point - a framework of identity pieced together by recorded data that became the new "Allison", a framework that could support itself while the Cameron part of her worked on fixing the damage. I think Summer Glau did a great job of exploring what a machine could express or mimic by observation but she knew where to draw the line - the new Allison couldn't cry any more than Cameron could.
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Post by kfeej on Sept 28, 2011 6:06:21 GMT -5
thanks for sharing knowledge.
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