Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10380701-20140808014446/@comment-6863431-20140816223925

On cheapening human life:

"Water, thirty five liters; carbon, twenty kilograms; ammonia, four liters; lime, one point five kilograms; phosphorus eight hundred grams; salt two hundred and fifty grams; saltpeter one hundred grams; and various other trace elements....That list represents the complete chemical makeup of a human body for the average adult.... Down at the market, a kid could buy every one of them for the spare change in his pocket. As it turns out, humans are pretty cheap."

We can't really make people seem cheaper than that, can we? And since most people believe the soul is just the neural connections in our head that make up our body, that means that that list would include that soul, as well. (Don't worry, I'm going somewhere with this)

So if you don't want to feel as if your soul is worth spare change, then you've got to believe that it's more than just a physical part of the body. And if that's the case, then it also has to be a lot rarer. And a lot more valuable.

All this to say the following: Look at Geppeto. Now look at Shou Tucker. Look at Penny. Now look at Nina.

My theory: Penny's "soul" is the collection of memories of a deceased daughter, or is the idea of what Geppeto believes the "perfect daughter" would be like. Then, he'd just have to create a body and housing mechanism for those ideas, and the robot would form it's own identity around those memories, kinda like Astro Boy, or what Shou was planning on doing with Nina.

Or we can just go with the RT reference and say that she's like Epsilon, only nicer.







