RoboCop is about a self forced to pass through systems…
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RoboCop is about a self forced to pass through systems that reshape it -- wiped, renamed, reprogrammed -- and the only question that matters, for Murphy and for us, is what survives the processing.
We tend to file *RoboCop* (1987) under cyborg sci-fi, but it's really staging the oldest question in personal identity: once the body's destroyed, the memory wiped, and the self rebuilt by someone else, is the thing that wakes up still Murphy? I get into Locke, Parfit, and Merleau-Ponty on whether a self survives that -- and why the same question is still haunting our ordinary lives. Interested in hearing your thoughts.
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We tend to file *RoboCop* (1987) under cyborg sci-fi, but it's really staging the oldest question in personal identity: once the body's destroyed, the memory wiped, and the self rebuilt by someone else, is the thing that wakes up still Murphy? I get into Locke, Parfit, and Merleau-Ponty on whether a self survives that -- and why the same question is still haunting our ordinary lives. Interested in hearing your thoughts.
#science
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