He may have carried around a bag of pig shit now and then, but the lawns were probably cut with phasers, and he had to look after hundreds of robots and thousands of drones to keep an eye on the campus for unsightliness.
Is the doctor a real person?
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Good lord! Who does your avatar's hair?
After he dies the replacement gardener, a Bio Park Engineer, will maintain the entire grounds from a control booth and never so much get his feet muddy.
The luddites will talk about how the real soul of gardening is gone now that there is no person of the soil.
Perhaps they will install a figurehead gardener to wander about with a little spade, as a bit of window dressing for visiting dignitaries.
Once again, there are some who DIDN'T read the TOPIC on this thread.
And that is their prerogative.
Because we're real people?
That's almost a line from Pinocchio... What did he say? "I want to be a real boy."
I was more thinking Barbara Streisand.
But when women sit on Pinocchio's face so that he can tell lies, you can imagine resentment building that the local women only value him for his nose.
"You're not fat, and very, very beautiful and your ass acne is not turning me gay."
But when women sit on Pinocchio's face so that he can tell lies, you can imagine resentment building that the local women only value him for his nose.
"You're not fat, and very, very beautiful and your ass acne is not turning me gay."
Who?
What do you mean? You mean the conversation derailment?
Threads would get very dry if they didn't veer off in various unrelated directions (I always thought it was the OP's responsibility to bring it back on topic.....which I like to think I did rather successfully despite the three or four pages of food and marriage talk)
And we're people who need people (who are, in many ways the luckiest people in the world)
If you consider the doctor to be a real person every other topic of conversation can potentially relate to him.
How upsetting would it be to inhabit 7's body and eat all that food and also do who knows what during bathroom breaks and then BAM. Back to photons.
The doctor would like to be a wine snob, a cuisine connoisseur, but he can not. The best he can manage is to pump out factlets like the ship's computer and adjectives other people have come up with to describe taste. These limitations must surely drive him mad.
How upsetting would it be to inhabit 7's body and eat all that food and also do who knows what during bathroom breaks and then BAM. Back to photons.
The doctor would like to be a wine snob, a cuisine connoisseur, but he can not. The best he can manage is to pump out factlets like the ship's computer and adjectives other people have come up with to describe taste. These limitations must surely drive him mad.
+1 well said.
Additionally, I think that average healthy specimens of lifeforms should be able to keep themselves alive. A human should be able to feed himself/herself. A hologram should be able to take care of its energy demand and holomatrix technoblahblah. I think the doc would do fine.
Yes, I believe we did see Captain Braxton picking through garbage cans for his next meal.
Mentally healthy Braxton at the end, after the end, do you think he volunteered to be integrated with banana pants old man Braxton, because it was probably his contractual duty, or was he held down while it was done to him?
More cooking/chemistry than meat-computer programming.
Mentally healthy Braxton at the end, after the end, do you think he volunteered to be integrated with banana pants old man Braxton, because it was probably his contractual duty, or was he held down while it was done to him?
More cooking/chemistry than meat-computer programming.
Actually the real kick they get is by getting him to alternate lies and truths...
What exactly did he feel when he was in control of sevens body? He eats cheesecake then marvels at its taste but how would his programming interpret taste. Surely it could only go so far....unless he was in control of Seven's actual physical body (rather than just her mental presence through the Borg implants) the more I think about that episode, the more mind bendy it gets
Program the doctor to think he's a shaved baboon called Keith and leave him on a planet and I suspect he'll only survive as long as he's got power. I'm amazed so many people want to see him as a genuine sapient life form. We all love the doctor but let's not let out hearts rule our heads people. He's a trick of the light
Having said that, I'm pleased to see the no vote is as high as it is
You'd have to tell alternate lies and truths quite quickly to make it worth your while, surely
Can't you just unscrew Pinocchio's head from the rest of his body?
Create a thousand partitions. Copy the doctors program 999 times. Put each copy into into a different partition. Ask each identical copy a thousand identical questions, if they are not "real" they will all produce 1000 identical answers.
What if the doctor is equipped with a randomization function based on subspace noise or whatever?
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