Quote from: SM on Sep 22, 2016, 10:13:16 PM
QuoteWhy are people ignoring the custom chip. Or why the Patna was so quick to reply/arrive, etc.
Where does it mention a "custom chip"? The nature of their conversation in CMTM is speculatory based on Bishop's reactions to Ripley. They say there's something odd about him, but they don't know what. Also it should be noted that the conversations at the end of the CMTM could very well be apocryphal considering how they end.
As for the Patna, I always assumed someone got wind of Burke's plans after he left and they set off in pursuit, so by the time the EEV crashed, the Patna was already en route.
I think this speaks for itself:
"android logs - all it saw or heard or downloaded; but this comes with a lot of contextual and semantic baggage - code to from the operating system.
It looks really odd - I've tried running it through ERAP, but my computers just can't make head nor tail of it."
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A custom mod?"
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More than that.This was one
very special android. Just look at these responses — this thing was a lot smarter than your usual synthetic; it was
making up some of its own emotional responses to events."
"Well, it's a company-built machine. I would have been surprised if it didn't have
something buried deep in the system."
Edited to clarify:
That was thought of by the scriptwriter and written for a very specific reason in the CMTM. A custom mod would likely be non-standard android
software. This is "more than that", so it's likely hardware that needs to overcome built in software that cannot be overcome by just modding it.
To me that sounds like a requirement to overcome the "behavioural inhibitors" which if my understanding of integrated circuit programming is current, would never be left to software which
could be hacked.
The behavoural inhibitors are more likely a
hardware firmware chip that cannot be
rewritten. (For safety). The only way to overrule it is by
hardware modification (ergo a custom chip).
The commands of the
custom chip are
conflicting with the
behavioural inhibitors and giving strange reactions in the data they are examining.
Don't forget that the two engineers discussing this did
not have access to Bishops remains. Just the data dumps. Because it was influenced by a custom chip the data looked so strange to them. Had they been able to
examine the remains they would have understood it more quickly.
I choose to consider the technical manual canon and decide that that small, very weird paragraph is not put there to be meaningless. The CMTM has so many of these little things that start to make sense if you think about them and try to solve them. And things fall into place when I do. People who don't are free not to
that's what makes this franchise great!