One thing I never understood about Data from TNG.....

If he had no emotions then how could he yearn to be "human"?

Barefooter25 · 46-50, M

He was always curious and intrigued by humans and humanity. He was also programmed to expand his knowledge of basic things. You could see in the first season of TNG, he had the intellect and the mind of a curious child.

meJess · F

He was programmed to improve himself and logically deduced that the the unseen, emotions, was a necessary addition to the purely factual

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meJess · F

@DavidT8899 isn’t that a robotic equivalent of yearning?

DavidT8899 · 22-25, M

@meJess Not as I see it.Curiosity is an intellectual proposition;yearning is an emotional state.The two are entirely seperate.I suppose we can agree to disagree.

DavidT8899 · 22-25, M

@meJess I mean,there really cant be a "robotic equivalent to yearning."

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Think you need to read something outside of star trek to understand the process. Like Isaac Asimov's robot series. I do mean the whole series because the robots depicted are progressive over thousands of years.

Notably Isaac Asimov was a well known mathematician in addition to a science fiction author. Also he coined the word "robot"!

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