Thursday, September 20, 2012

Blog 12: Epitaph Two: Return


            In this episode Caroline meets herself in her real body, but they seem like two completely different people. If the same person is in two bodies are they different people?
            I think that they are different people because a huge part of what a person is is their memories. In this episode memories could be the only way to define a person because bodies can be switched so easily. The little girl Caroline doesn’t have the same memories because she has been through different experiences than the original Caroline. If a person goes straight from one body to another I feel they would be the same, but when they live on in one and are later uploaded in another it seems completely different. I’d say that one person can be uploaded into multiple bodies, but they would all be slightly different people not the same one.
            In the episode a bunch of techs come that can upload different skills they carry to their brain and take out skills to allow room for new ones. If the technology is capable of such seemingly good things why did everything turn out so bad?
            It seems to be in human nature to not know when to stop or if they do there is always someone who will keep pushing the limit of technology and the boundaries of ethics. This ability to learn new skill so quickly was amazing, but as is human nature they wanted bigger and better things that could make more and more money. If they stopped at the technology to learn new things quickly everything could have turned out well but they couldn’t resist pushing farther and switching bodies. Even that wasn’t so bad until people yet again pushed and used the technology as a weapon. I think technology will always cause harm because it is what will eventually happen with so many people. The trick is to not let it grow so fast it gets out of hand.

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