Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Dec 22, 2020, 12:29:30 AM
I guess the Alien and the David retcon doesn't bother me all that much because, at the end of the day, it's Giger's inherently sexualized beast being created by a character that is so self-obsessed and sexually depraved and has this vendetta against his creators and an obsession with creation on his own terms.
I know it might sound creepy, mostly because Giger wasn't an evil killer psychopath like David, but don't forget about their respective muses
Humans are manufactured Neo-Engineers. Their replicants created by unkow purposes. David on the other hand, is a robot. He was raised to be the servant of a failed
Übermensch. But he becomes his own somewhat disturbing version of the
Übermensch, once he is aware that his creator
God is dead. He's also an artificial person as well, capable to understand and experiences human emotioms. But as a machine, David is unable to exprex his own sexuality.
Alien is that. It's the monstrous sexuality of a delusional A.l, and it's really creepy. I think you nail it.
On a side note, it is incredible how ancient the concept of artificial intelligence is, older than science fiction itself.
Quote"Through their myths and stories, scholars wrestled with what it meant to be human and how man can push his biological limits to what he can give life to. These stories involved giving a sort of human intellect to inanimate objects and, through this, creating a machine that questions what humanistic values might differ from those of nature. Writers portrayed automaton such as the defender Talos, working through blood vessels behind a bronze robotic armor, with human qualities such as emotions and judgements. These primitive forms of artificial intelligence challenged what it meant to be human by stretching the limits of what man can create"
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A History of Artificial IntelligenceI think
Raised by Wolves is a fever dream of the concept; mixing themes from ancient
aliens machines, religion vs atheism, references to
Alien and the even more classic
Metropolis.