Quote from: whiterabbit on Sep 30, 2012, 12:59:52 AM
Quote from: SiL on Sep 30, 2012, 12:19:42 AM
Quote from: Space Sweeper on Sep 27, 2012, 11:23:06 PM
I believe that would be applicable as being "surprise". No way in hell he feels any form of pain... and I mean why would they program that?
Did everybody just miss the entire dialogue exchange between David and Holloway about why he puts on the helmet?
Good point. It was sensory overload from having his head ripped off. In the extended scene he is even apologizing to weyland as his head hits the floor. The same thing happens to a lobster while being boiled alive. The lobster panics not due to pain but due to the fact that it is being boiled alive.
Thank you, it makes much more sense that a lobster would have the ability to rationalize what's happening to it and panic, a much more advanced response, than react to the most basic of all nervous impulses, which would be pain.
Organisms without pain don't last very long, as "pain" is data that a nervous system sends to the brain about system damage. There's a rare genetic disease in humans called CIPA (congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis) in which the development of the small nerve fibers which transmit pain messages is disrupted, and pain doesn't register as normal, including temperature variations. This also leads to the body not activating certain pain-based measures, such as sweating. This isn't a good thing.
Take it from Terminator when it said "the data may be called
pain." It's just data, and any functional android would require it to understand the limits of its own systems, though realistically an artificial person's pain threshold would be much different than ours. Any reaction to this pain other than a defensive response would be clever programming to create empathy.
Lobsters, sweet Christ.