Hello, I read through your work after noticing mine was liked by you. I almost giggled that we had similar themes and plot lines even if they went down different paths. I assure you from my end that this was unintentional but I did find it amusing. Drop me a line if you'd like to discuss ideas. Good work all the same.
It's a bit strange in some respects, though I suppose it's reflective of broader culture that robotics and transhumanist futures always force us to reflect on what it means to be human, probably because the robotic element is easier to understand than the human one.
True, souls in the machine, ghosts in the shell, if you will, is a well trodden path. I don't like safe walked paths, at least not in my writing. So where do you think an innovative writer should take the concept. My personal take, if it is possible for the machine to house a soul or spirit, rather than preventing death, what about bringing back the dead, housing spirits even.
That would be an ambitious project to attempt. Starting point is certainly plausible by most religions I'm familiar with, so you could start from whichever's afterlife you're familiar with, or one of your own creation. To me the tricky part becomes where does the conflict come from? Do you take a "you pissed off god" position, do you go Frankenstein's monster, what does that effort take? Is it a personal cost, does the society stagnate, do adrenaline junkies become more common, does OSHA go out the window? Or how do you verify who you brought back, as there's more than a few people who probably aren't worth the trouble
Exactly, religious factions could war against each other, fundamentalists versus new age. I thought Frankenstein but pondered the Golem of Jewish lore. What about sporting events. OSHA for the dead, I like it. What about bringing back very BAD people. What about evil spirits. What kind of people would be capable of bringing back the dead or spirits. The possibilities are practically endless. I know it's been toyed with before in other mediums but I honestly believe it's a truly underrated and underused concept.
Golem is an interesting one, especially if you play on the idea that bringing someone back taxes their sanity a bit, or you get the ones who were happy to stay dead idea, who get brought back and immediately try to leave as it were.
Hello, I read through your work after noticing mine was liked by you. I almost giggled that we had similar themes and plot lines even if they went down different paths. I assure you from my end that this was unintentional but I did find it amusing. Drop me a line if you'd like to discuss ideas. Good work all the same.
It's a bit strange in some respects, though I suppose it's reflective of broader culture that robotics and transhumanist futures always force us to reflect on what it means to be human, probably because the robotic element is easier to understand than the human one.
True, souls in the machine, ghosts in the shell, if you will, is a well trodden path. I don't like safe walked paths, at least not in my writing. So where do you think an innovative writer should take the concept. My personal take, if it is possible for the machine to house a soul or spirit, rather than preventing death, what about bringing back the dead, housing spirits even.
That would be an ambitious project to attempt. Starting point is certainly plausible by most religions I'm familiar with, so you could start from whichever's afterlife you're familiar with, or one of your own creation. To me the tricky part becomes where does the conflict come from? Do you take a "you pissed off god" position, do you go Frankenstein's monster, what does that effort take? Is it a personal cost, does the society stagnate, do adrenaline junkies become more common, does OSHA go out the window? Or how do you verify who you brought back, as there's more than a few people who probably aren't worth the trouble
Exactly, religious factions could war against each other, fundamentalists versus new age. I thought Frankenstein but pondered the Golem of Jewish lore. What about sporting events. OSHA for the dead, I like it. What about bringing back very BAD people. What about evil spirits. What kind of people would be capable of bringing back the dead or spirits. The possibilities are practically endless. I know it's been toyed with before in other mediums but I honestly believe it's a truly underrated and underused concept.
Golem is an interesting one, especially if you play on the idea that bringing someone back taxes their sanity a bit, or you get the ones who were happy to stay dead idea, who get brought back and immediately try to leave as it were.