Christoph.Krn
Advanced Member
First of all: no offense intended, I just thought it was interesting.People personify animals which are instincts and have no observable feelings back for them; I see no reason why I cannot personify my Pandora.
That sentence is so extremely discussable on so many layers. It is:
- Discussable because it's off-topic.
- Discussable because the feelings may or may not be observable.
- Discussable because by following its logic by which animals are just objects ("instincts") but can also be personified (as implied by the fact that there seems to be no reason to not personify a Pandora, which is also an object), the sentence contradicts itself in that it says that it /both/ does AND doesn't make sense to personify animals (and thus, Pandoras) at the same time (personification entanglement).
- Discussable because by following its logic, after all, human beings (which includes the definite presence of "feelings") are also nothing but biological machines ("instincts"), and thus it makes sense to personify, and do and do not personify (personification entanglement) people at the same time.
- Discussable because if it makes sense to personify and not personify people at the same time, Pandoras are no longer different from any animal in the context of this sentence (except that any Pandora's instincts are determined by man-made electronic routines as opposed to given biologic routines) (because the concept of "personification" as it had existed has been destroyed by the fact that it makes sense to personify and not personify people at the same time, and which therefore now means "to do or not do something that has not formerly been known as 'personification'") and at the same time are opposites (personification entanglement), which leads to the conclusion that the insight that any feelings that may probably exist for any given Pandora and may or may not be observable (and thus may or may not actually be there) is definitely of an off-topic nature. It also suggests that there may not really be a reason to personify any man-made electronics, but that claim requires further examination. Just call it "pandora", you're making everything complicated.
(I'm so sorry. It's clearly my brain's fault, not mine!)
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