(10-10-2015, 12:58 AM)mongi291 Wrote: I know they are faceless and mindless. I thought that it could be possible if a lone Allagan scientist kept one of those manikins for himself and gave it a face and a mind.
It's more than just a face and a mind, really. For a machine to be a machine while still not knowing it, they would have to:
-- Not only eat and drink, but starve and stop functioning if they don't.
-- Crap and piss after they eat and drink.
-- Sweat.
-- Not only breathe, but require breath.
-- Take visible, human-like damage, regardless of whether or not they can feel it (bruise, bleed, break, etcetera.)
-- Weigh within the normal confines of a humanoid (the metal, stone, etc, that Allagans make their tech out of is heavy stuff).
-- Not interact in fishy ways when encountered with energy or metals (magnetism, etc).
-- Not interact in fishy ways when encountered with liquid (short-out, lose articulation in their joints, etc).
-- Have facial expressions that are built-in and perfectly articulated, something that we, with all our current real-world technology, are not yet capable of properly doing.
-- Probably some other stuff I didn't think about.
Now, other things aside, as soon as you've gotten to the point where you've built a robot that can take a shit and bleeds when you cut their robo-arm off, not only have you gotten to the point of Questionably Robotic, but also the point of Questionably Useful. Why would you go through all the time and thought needed to build a working digestive system for a robot, especially when your civilization has done a bang-up job of growing their cloning and biological industries?
It just seems unnecessary. I think you could get more mileage out of an Allagan clone.
