Quote from: CainsSon on Mar 16, 2017, 01:34:28 AM
There is evidence to suggest that the neurotransmitter GABBA may be intricately linked to consciousness. Not to spoil your SPIRITUALITY stuff. Its not the strongest evidence.
Like I said, spiritual or mental. It's nothing to do with DNA.mEven the Alien, which somehow has 'genetic memory', wiuldn't be able to perform this: Memories aren't someone's consciousness, either.
QuoteAs for an Android getting facehugged, we have to accept that there is some way in this series that BIOMECHANICS work. This involves ORGANIC MATTER GROWING ON and WITHIN MACHINES. Now, Im not saying having this happen specifically is the only way this should occur, but in truth, SAYING ITS NOT POSSIBLE DIRECTLY, would be creating kind of a plot hole, because the entire design of the ALIEN is BIOMECHANICAL which means, there has to be a way to merge machine and organic matter... That an ALIEN can do it, is sorta already a thing. How its done it, is a mystery, and MAYBE IT SHOULD STAY THAT WAY, but its biomechanical features are not really something we can exclude without reason and as they said "Its getting there."
Biomechanics were an artistic aesthetic Giger specialised in.
For the Alien, it's not literal. Kane, after all, was not a machine with which his chestburster somehow merged (and the chestburster, it must be said, was decidedly fleshy, not mechanised). For the Alien, it would most logically be extrapolated by the hardening exoskeleton.
Go and look at electron microscope close-ups of insects and arachnids. They tend to look very machine-like, but they're not literally constructed of metal. It's their natural exoskeleton.
Then again, neither are the synthetics... Ash and Bishop seemed to have electronics, but no indications of having any metal endoskeletons. David 8, too. So, if this theory were even true, an Alien would somehow have to gain literal external mechanical components from a being which doesn't even have any.