One thing I never understood about Data from TNG.....
If he had no emotions then how could he yearn to be "human"?
22-25, M
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meJess · F
He was programmed to improve himself and logically deduced that the the unseen, emotions, was a necessary addition to the purely factual
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@meJess I could understand him thinking that as an INTELLECTUAL concept,but on the show it was established that he LONGED to experince humanity;YEARNED for it.That should have been impossible.
meJess · F
@DavidT8899 programming would potentially force a similar state to yearning that could only be expressed as learning since no term was available for his unique positronic construction.
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@meJess I dont know.If he cant,by definition,feel emotion,then its a shaky prospect that his programing would cause him to feel a simulation of them.It would seem to me that the best he could have is strong intellectual curiosity.
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."