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ok i just finished watching the whole show.
what a sucky ending! so many questions.
what a sucky ending! so many questions.
Cameron (Terminator: TSCC)
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Really? I loved it! I loved all the questions. When a show dies but leaves so many questions it's like it leaves it alive somehow for me.
Sadly outside on same day Live DVR ratings, the networks don't care because they can't make money on it. DVR is a good way of knowing you have an audience still there, giving you the option of moving the show to a better timeslot to get some back for live ratings.
They were a set of infiltration behavioural protocols specifically to get her acquainted with and close to, John Connor.
In a future episode (I'll not spoil the details) she does it again, specifically to get close to John once more.
In a future episode (I'll not spoil the details) she does it again, specifically to get close to John once more.
Or as part of her mission the emotionless terminator keep people away from John because she came as part of that package and who wanted to deal with a sister like that always being around. In the end it worked with Riley.
Nothing at all? That's a bit disappointing. But do we know she couldn't develop feelings for him? The T-800 in T2 grew to genuinely care for John, maybe something similar could happen with Cameron?
Cameron spent much more time with Sarah and John than the T800 did, and during that time she seemed to learn little about humanity, and she seemed to have little interest in learning about humanity. I'm sort of glad that she wasn't a T800 clone or a Pinnochio/Data wannabe.
On the other hand, I rather like the idea of John being confused about the situation, and reading between the lines of Cameron's behavior and perceiving stuff that's not really there. It certainly happens between two flesh-and-blood teenaged people.
On the other hand, I rather like the idea of John being confused about the situation, and reading between the lines of Cameron's behavior and perceiving stuff that's not really there. It certainly happens between two flesh-and-blood teenaged people.
I think Cameron loved John, I also think we saw in Cameron a terminator at the end of it's operational lifetime and also her chip was compromised at the beginning of S2, I have a few theories,
one being that Allison Young's mind was downloaded onto her chip as a way to keep her from going Aggro on John, my other theory is that Cameron's chip actually contained a copy of "John Henry"
Cameron's got a CPU, not a brain. In my opininon she can't emote in the way that humans do; just interpret data and simulate emotion. The lights are on, but no-one's home.
(Of course, Alison From Palmiotti is something of a fly in the ointment of that interpretation.)
(Of course, Alison From Palmiotti is something of a fly in the ointment of that interpretation.)
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^So? I'd argue that's just the case of a Philosophical zombie. If Cameron is reacting in a way consistent with how an emotional, sentient being would act, you really have no other way to determine that she's not feeling genuine emotion, or an equivalent so practically close that it makes no difference.
(That, of course, doesn't apply in instances when she was obviously lying, like when she said she loved John during her little trying-to-kill-him episode.)
(That, of course, doesn't apply in instances when she was obviously lying, like when she said she loved John during her little trying-to-kill-him episode.)
^ Well, it may depend on how much one knows about the technology involved. Cameron would seem to have an algorithm that provides an arbitrarily good simulation of what a human might do or say. When it's a case of protecting John's life or ending someone else's though, though, she's all business. She's never not on-mission.
Also, a philosophical zombie, according to your link, lacks sentience or conscious experience. While I don't think that Cameron is necessarily lacking in self-awareness (, even if she probably would be with a single-CPU system), she does seem to superficially fit the bill.
Also, a philosophical zombie, according to your link, lacks sentience or conscious experience. While I don't think that Cameron is necessarily lacking in self-awareness (, even if she probably would be with a single-CPU system), she does seem to superficially fit the bill.
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