I was reading over here: Sweater Project where David is discussing religion and machines and whether we should figure this stuff out before creating AIs that might decide their own morality that might differ from our own.
I am glad to hear there are others out there enjoying BG as much as I am, and the thought provoking questions too. How did the Cylons become religious? Are they worshipping the same God as we {those who) do? What will happen when they reach Earth and find monotheistic groups that all disagree on who God is? When is this happening anyway? Will we Earthers ever agree on something so personal? We can even see some differences in the religion of the 12 colonies, when it’s mentioned that the Gemini are fundamentalists.
As an agnostic, it’s more academic, but for a believer, what’s it like to watch this show?
I can’t wait to find out what happens each week. The questions in the most recent ep (205) regarding love, whether man can love a machine, and whether love is what’s missing from the machine’s ability to procreate… And Boomer, what’s going on there? Is she betraying the Cylons in her desire to be human? If so, does that mean Adama is a cylon and she shot him to stop the fleet from leading the Cylons to Earth? Or is Adama human, and she’s betraying the humans in favor of the Cylons? It makes me wonder if she is in control of herself at all, or is it more of a multiple personality thing where one persona doesn’t know what the other is doing? Her comment to Starbuck that she didn’t access the information about the farms makes it seem like there is some form of connecting consciousness, or is there?
So many questions!!