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Is the doctor a real person?

Is the doctor a real person

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 57.1%
  • No

    Votes: 19 38.8%
  • I don't know, I'm confused, error

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Total voters
    49
I am am/was talking about an actual sitcom that did first air 2 days ago.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwnQ-SbtJug[/yt]

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lex7Vp2DKlI[/yt]

It's set in 2020-something, I say something because it's 3 years since every one else died, so it's unlikely that the calendar for 2021 that he is using is current.
 
So a human being didn't RAISED you? It was... THE EARTH???

YES, I am raised Tarzan. ME and Cheetah are HAVING hoops for tea

We're primarily talking here about coming into existence through natural processes with an in built capacity for sapience. A human being doesn't need a brilliant creative mind to come into existence (any idiot will do). You can't compare a quick sticky fumble in the hay with the monumental cognitive task of creating AI

The no's are catching up

We can do it !!
 
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So a human being didn't RAISED you? It was... THE EARTH???

YES, I am raised Tarzan. ME and Cheetah are HAVING hoops for tea

We're primarily talking here about coming into existence through natural processes with an in built capacity for sapience. A human being doesn't need a brilliant creative mind to come into existence (any idiot will do). You can't compare a quick sticky fumble in the hay with the monumental cognitive task of creating AI

The no's are catching up

We can do it !!

THAT, in itself is a PROGRAM. Evolution built in by experience and adapting. Humans are complex computers and we are wired differently and we are programmed differently.

Voyager wiping out the Doctor's program in essence kills the Doctor.

Altering his programming is no different than a human being manipulated in killing or doing harm to people in the name of a deity.

All of this is part of programming.
 
Picard created man kind, yet barely seems like he can program more than a few words by whacking a stone against the wires in Data head.
 
THAT, in itself is a PROGRAM. Evolution built in by experience and adapting. Humans are complex computers and we are wired differently and we are programmed differently.

Yeah, I've already conceded that humans also have programming. The point is that human programming is significantly more natural and demonstrably more complex

Altering his programming is no different than a human being manipulated in killing or doing harm to people in the name of a deity.

Um, I think that might be a slight exaggeration

The complexity issue would be noticeable here

Even the doctor agrees

EMH: I apologise for overstepping my bounds but I'm worried about you. Michael Sullivan is a hologram. His broken heart can be mended with the flick of a switch. Your feelings however, are a little more complicated.

Picard created man kind, yet barely seems like he can program more than a few words by whacking a stone against the wires in Data head.

Kirk told God to fuck off once. It's all relative
 
I observed the same and wondered if he was gardening the students as much as the grass? Surely the person who was pruning the weeds and fertilizing the free bloom of the class body had to be far more important than Boothby had ever presented of himself.
 
I observed the same and wondered if he was gardening the students as much as the grass? Surely the person who was pruning the weeds and fertilizing the free bloom of the class body had to be far more important than Boothby had ever presented of himself.

I for one, on a purely practical level, find that totally unbelievable. The groundskeepers at my university were quite unremarkable people. I don't know where they got that kooky idea that a gardener could be anything else than an ordinary person. Why would he be a gardener otherwise? If it's because he's lazy then so much for your role model. If there is another reason that is compatible with him being an exceptional person then I'd like to know what that is.
 
Many people are full of wisdom without having jobs that pay them to be kirkfan. I suspect Picard, insulated as he was for decades in Starfleet, found the words of an older man outside that system who had a keen observational eye to have a refreshing angle. And let's just use the word homespun to complete the cliche.
 
Many people are full of wisdom without having jobs that pay them to be kirkfan. I suspect Picard, insulated as he was for decades in Starfleet, found the words of an older man outside that system who had a keen observational eye to have a refreshing angle. And let's just use the word homespun to complete the cliche.

"To be kirkfan"! Why don't you spare me this personal shit? Or is it too adult a request for you? Needless to say, your credibility in telling ME about wisdom is shot to hell.
 
Many people are full of wisdom without having jobs that pay them to be kirkfan. I suspect Picard, insulated as he was for decades in Starfleet, found the words of an older man outside that system who had a keen observational eye to have a refreshing angle. And let's just use the word homespun to complete the cliche.

Boothby can't have been much older than Picard when he was first at the academy though. Are we absolutely sure he wasn't just grooming youngsters (did they ever do a background check on this guy)

Wasn't there an episode set during Picard's academy days about young cadets going missing

"To be kirkfan"! Why don't you spare me this personal shit? Or is it too adult a request for you? Needless to say, your credibility in telling ME about wisdom is shot to hell.

Whoah!! (that's English for....."stop a horse") where did that come from?
 
Seriously kirkfan what the heck are you on about?

Spare you the personal shit? I'm talking about where the character trope comes from. Why are you so aggressive?
 
Many people are full of wisdom without having jobs that pay them to be kirkfan. I suspect Picard, insulated as he was for decades in Starfleet, found the words of an older man outside that system who had a keen observational eye to have a refreshing angle. And let's just use the word homespun to complete the cliche.

Boothby can't have been much older than Picard when he was first at the academy though. Are we absolutely sure he wasn't just grooming youngsters (did they ever do a background check on this guy)

Wasn't there an episode set during Picard's academy days about young cadets going missing

That's true, I guess I think of him as super old. Well same thing applies, with less tropey goodness. Oh look one of the little people manicuring my paradise, maybe they have some special insights for me.
 
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