Talk:Penny Polendina/@comment-86.158.128.20-20160512004335

This has been bugging me for too long (and I need to get this out of my head before my A level exams):

Are there any irrefutable indicators that Penny was an entirely original artificial intelligence, or could there be significant hints that she was based on another'sconsciousness?

I got the idea that she could be the latter in a similar fashion to the late Church/Alpha/Epsilon(/Director?) from Red vs Blue (*sniff*); firstly from the fact that both of these series are produced by the same people, and secondly from the way she refers to the elderly chap who build her as 'father'

This got me wondering whether if said maker could have genuinely been a father (considering his age) - of a daughter whom he lost/was about to lose - and through some questionable deal with Ironwood (or with a previous military big cheese which would have then been passed onto our favourite Robodaddy) was able to eventually construct a body to put her in.

By that, I mean here's where RvB comes in. Correct me if I'm wrong (wouldn't surprise me - it's been years since I binged series 7-10), but Alpha was based on the Director's personality. As such he couldn't have really been considered an truly artificial  intelligence since he and the Director 'share[d] the same mind'. If Penny's father felt the same 'duty' as the Director did in his attempts to ‘resurrect’ Allison, then could the guy have created a similar shadow of his hypothetical daughter... in Penny?

I'm wondering this as in the case of the above, she wouldn't have been a truly artifical  intelligence, would she? She'd have been based on another's personality, thus possibly possessing some equivalence of their soul/aura.

Would this mean that we have yet to see whether an 'actual' (for lack of a better word) AI can generate its own aura?

On the other hand, if this is trite, incomprehensible or pointless garbage then just say - I don't want to be the culprit of a thread as vomit-inducing as the one below xD