You're very familiar with the YoRHA androids, aren't you, Simon?
[It's a simple observation, based on this conversation alone. It's curious, but not wholly unexpected; Connor, too, has taken a vested interest in them. Other androids from other worlds, just as advanced as him. More advanced, even, in many ways wrought from an Earth so vastly different than his own.
And perhaps the focus shifting away from his own personal opinion, just slightly, removes a few barbs of anxiety prickling against his biocomponents.]
Why humanize any object? A question that can be applied to more than just androids. Humans have long labeled automobiles as 'her'. Seafaring vessels are given the same treatment. Mankind has always been prone to forming attachment to machines, among other things; and to manufacture an android to look just like a human allows an ease of integration, of comfort, with something that is -- at its core -- only an object.
I understand that this also creates empathy, in some cases. And while a little misguided, if it aids in an android's given objective, it isn't necessarily a bad thing, either.
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[It's a simple observation, based on this conversation alone. It's curious, but not wholly unexpected; Connor, too, has taken a vested interest in them. Other androids from other worlds, just as advanced as him. More advanced, even, in many ways wrought from an Earth so vastly different than his own.
And perhaps the focus shifting away from his own personal opinion, just slightly, removes a few barbs of anxiety prickling against his biocomponents.]
Why humanize any object? A question that can be applied to more than just androids. Humans have long labeled automobiles as 'her'. Seafaring vessels are given the same treatment. Mankind has always been prone to forming attachment to machines, among other things; and to manufacture an android to look just like a human allows an ease of integration, of comfort, with something that is -- at its core -- only an object.
I understand that this also creates empathy, in some cases. And while a little misguided, if it aids in an android's given objective, it isn't necessarily a bad thing, either.