Cyborg Theory

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

We are starting a new class project. I have tagged five members of the class via a secret email. Those students have just discovered that they are human-form robots. Your job as a class is to figure out who those five students are and how you would react if you discovered they were not as human as they acted. This should take tonight's class period and next weeks. You are also allowed to work on this over the week.

For the ones who are cylons human-form robots: Your job is to keep the real humans guessing and to write a report on how you had to hide your true identity followed by how you had to deal with how the "humans" in your class reacted to you.

For those who are humans: Your job is to give me a report on how you felt to discover your close friends and school mates were not what you thought they were.

For those of you who are actually cylons in disguise: I have cake and tea for you after class as this project may be traumatizing.

The reports will be due Wednesday, October 19.

Also, I will call attendance. Please respond when I say your name.

Comments

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka studies Cally. "You might be a little too smart. You could be a robot. Actually, that would apply to Sam, too."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

I'm so not a robot. Robots could not possibly be as cute as me. Or kiss as poorly.

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. If I was going to build a robot, I'd make it very cute. Less suspicious that way." She nods, as if this was somehow conclusive. You kiss better than most people with their lip bitten through.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Well, I also get drunk too easily. Now that's a flaw no robot would have. They'd totally have super-robot staminas.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

What if you're faking your drunkenness?

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Have you seen what I do? If I was gonna fake drunkeness, I totally wouldn't do the things I've done. Wouldn't be proper. ::pout::

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're one of the chosen few, then what your ACTUALLY experience can be different from how you experience it for this lesson.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

::blinks::

Okay, I'm confused again.

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

RC smiles enigmatically and makes a note in her gradebook.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Why can't we just pull out an electromagnet?" She glares at Eighth. "And why do I have to be the robot? I'm the clone, dammit! Why can't someone else be the robot?"

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

No one said YOU were the robot, love.

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"What if alcohol is somehow inconsistent with the robot's biomechanics? Maybe it alcohol would affect them more?"

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Good, good.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Or, the alcohol could always affect them less. If we're going purely on behavior," she said, "I'd look for behaviors that seem somehow less human, less forgiving of others."

Her eyes never leave Eighth's face.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

So, if the robots were actually much nicer to everyone, you'd never suspect a thing?

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

No, what Samantha is insinuating is that the ethics of a robot are fundamentally different from a human's. This is key, Cally.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

They are? How come?

Robots could be just like normal people, couldn't they? Just... robot-y instead of human-y.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam turns to Cally. This is actually information that could save the girl's life someday. "They're not human. A cyborg will do everything it can to emulate human behavior, but there will always be something that gives it away."

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

But in being Other than Human, they have a different standard to live up to and therefore the ethics and the very core of their personality is slightly different from a humans.

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"Dr. Carter, a question about robots, if you don't mind?"

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Go ahead, dear.

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Eighth smiles broadly. "Ah, Samantha, you sultry minx bright little girl."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I prefer to be called Sam, please, Professor" which you very well know, you pain in my...

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

"Fifth calls me Samantha. *sad cries* As you wish."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka looks very pleased by the praise.