Was Data human?
Give it some thought if you're inclined or just laugh it off.
Give it some thought if you're inclined or just laugh it off.
A Serious Question?
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Nope.
Don't have any serious questions for you.
Thanks for the opportunity to address one though. Thoughtful of you.
Don't have any serious questions for you.
Thanks for the opportunity to address one though. Thoughtful of you.
"He's a machine"
Data was obviously not *human*, as such, but he was alive and sentient.
Seconded.
Trekdom has agreed on his sentience, but "alive" is still debatable. He's a sentient machine.
If Data is sentient, then he must also be alive.
Was Data human?
Give it some thought if you're inclined or just laugh it off.
Data was divine.
What has one got to do with the other?
How can there be sentience without life?
I feel that while he is an android physically, in his quest to be more human, he has a human soul, human goals, and human aspirations. Like the Tin Man seeking a heart when he already had one, he already has a soul. We've seen he can be better than most humans, but can also feel like avenging wrongs, such as toward the end of The Most Toys. -- RR
My first thought was that he was human, but not homo sapien. But the more I think about Data. No, I don't think so. He was too "good" to be human. Too honest, too patient, even with his emotions on. And Lore was no more human than we consider a sociopathic monster to be human. By definition people like that are stripped of their humanity.
Though of course it is a rather organic definition.
Though of course it is a rather organic definition.
Not in the Trek universe's concept of a human being biological decedent of the species Homo Sapiens-Sapiens (from the third planet orbiting Sol).Was Data human?
Give it some thought if you're inclined or just laugh it off.
Yes on being a sentient being with rights about self determination, own property, produce offspring and make decisions about them before the offspring are sufficiently mature/experienced enough to make their own decisions. The same would apply to species like the Horta, Klingons and if indications from The Voyage Home are any indication Humpback Whales.
In the original book the Tin Woodsman was a flesh and blood lumberjack that obtained a succession of tin prostheses after axe related spell/curse induced amputations. Eventually there were no flesh, blood or bone parts left. When he lost his trunk and head his status as a living being was preserved through the magical nature of the earlier prosthetics.
Yes.
What has one got to do with the other?
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