For Humanities, Kay had us watch a movie about a utopian society and focus on the question:
What went wrong with this idea of perfection?
In the movie Blade Runner, which is set in 2019, Earth is in the grips of a nuclear winter. The premise is that man figured how to create androids that looked exactly like people and were as intelligent as people, but stronger. They also had a limited lifespan of four years. Replicants were used as slaves, especially on colony worlds.
What went wrong is that the robots- replicants, as they're called- went rouge and killed lots of people, proving that artificial intelligence can be more than just a little scary. A nuance of the movie that I noticed is that they had an experimental replicant who was created with a flase set of memories of life- a childhood and whatnot. She was human- the only thing setting her apart from other women being her inevitable short lifespan.
Interesting. According to the movie, what makes us 'human' is what we experience, how he are brought up.
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