mabey robots can reproduce? mabey the mushrooms that look like people are actually the infant stages of a robot? they come into the world in a state of simple existence, and as infanthood wanes they gain ability to interact with the world.
perhaps they can reproduce themselves by leaving/planting something/a part of themselves into the earth- which will grow a new mushroom robot? clearly robots are organic- they eat... mabey they come from the earth? it would make sense- alpha doesn't seem to have insane interest in sex so mabey she can reproduce asexually or with another female robot?
for a future without humans robots will need to be able to procreate on their own.
- gene
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Interesting theory there Gene. Gosh darn it now it has the plot bunnies running through my head. I wouldn't be surprised of that was the case though. There has to be a way for them to make more robots without the humans around. Man these theories are great for fan fic ideas.
- Christine K
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Or to follow a similar line, perhaps the mushroom people or "water gods" are as you say, infant robots, but that the robots are borne from spores and incubated to maturity... these may be the product of stray spores which found a place to implant, but lacking proper incubation have grown to a certain proto-stage and stagnated...
At this point almost anything is plausable in the YKK world! :p
- Darin~
Thursday, December 1, 2005
OK, if robots are asexual, then there wouldn't need to be any male robots and even if there were, they would be the same as the female (except cosmetically) and wouldn't have a higher failure rate.
- Kerry
Thursday, December 1, 2005
by asexual i just meant that perhaps one robot could reproduce on its own? perhaps two female robots could reproduce?
i dont know- when it comes to a robot is gender necessary for reproduction? is reproduction all there is to being male or female?
----then there wouldn't need to be any male robots and even if there were, they would be the same as the female (except cosmetically) and wouldn't have a higher failure rate-----
is there a purpose and difference in making a male robot or a female robot? other than cosmetically?
in the past we assumed that robots can't reproduce, or at least i did. Yet they made two distinct genders.....
- gene
Thursday, December 1, 2005
>>is reproduction all there is to being male or female?
----then there wouldn't need to be any male robots and even if there were, they would be the same as the female (except cosmetically) and wouldn't have a higher failure rate-----
is there a purpose and difference in making a male robot or a female robot? other than cosmetically?
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And yet, Nai flys and appearently maintains an airplane...
...while Alpha runs a coffeeshop, Kokone is a delivery person and Maruko paints.
I think I see a male/female discinction right there! ;)
- Darin~
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Sorry, yeah, gender *is* just for reproduction. Society has cast men and women into roles. Women are smaller on average and more efficient at digesting food, since they have to carry babies and eat for two. So they have gotten the short end of the stick in most societies. But, disregarding societal brainwashing, they are just as capable as men. Alpha seemed to have a better feel for the plane than Nai (who probably survives because he doesn't have the stereotypical male characteristics?).
So, unless female robots are going to bear children, there's no reason for male robots unless it's to make robots more acceptable to humans. Kokone certainly doesn't want a male robot.
- Kerry
Thursday, December 1, 2005
I do not believe the "mushrooms" to be infant robots, there appears to be too much actual construction involved in Alphas make-up for that to be the case.
Since there really does seem to be a biological part of the robots though, I keep thinking that maybe some of that biologicall component which, I assume, would have been genetically engineered, escaped the labs and resulted in the "mushrooms".
If we look at todays problems with genetic manipulation, I don't believe it to be too far fetched to believe that there might have been some unwanted DNA transfer that altered part of the plant live.
The one problem I have though is that there is another explanation that might work better, since it's not only the mushrooms, but rather a lot of plants and animals that seem to have undergone some alteration.
Radiation.
I'm not talking about atomic bombs here, I believe the scenario of a thirld world war to be unlikely - there could hardly be anything left after such a war after all.
No, lets suppose another man made disaster: Global climate change, causing numeous natural catastrohes, including a total loss of the ozone layer, for at least a number of years. Wouldn't the resultant radiation levels
account for widespread mutations?
Isn't that one of the main theories that's been proposed?
As for the difference between male and female robots.
Well a robot is an immitation of it's creator. And integrating them socially seems easier when they are cast into the existing gender roles. So this doesn't necessarilly mean they are ment to reproduce.
Best Alan
- Alan
Thursday, December 1, 2005
i really dont think there has been mass mutations: humans look like normal humans, robots look like normal humans too.
Robots by their definition are the child of humanity. We would assume that they are biologicalish so probley they are biotech, or a new form of life: with new dna and more sensitive to the world, and created by humans
there is no account yet to how these robots are made: my theory... we have seen a few of the mushrooms that look more and less human: perhaps its like a 20 year process of simple existance: and the personality of the emrging robot is taken from the memories of that simple infant mushroom experience
-the humans revere and all seem to love, and protext the robots dearly, the humans seem to have the same attitude towards the mushrooms.
- gene
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Howdy,
I don't think it's radiation either. It seems to be something entirely new. Perhaps radiation is a component, but the oddities we have seen with the natural world trying to trace out and duplicate the human world suggests a completely new, unknown force.
Best,
Dave
- dDave
Friday, December 2, 2005
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