Are We Playing As a Robot? Or A Cyborg?

[FateWeaver]

Seeing as we are using methadone to treat ourselves with, you would think we are human, since using an opioid wouldn't make sense for a machine.

But the store page says we are an android with a human mind, so... Maybe Methadone should be raplaced with nanites or something of that nature?

Or call the main character a cyborg instead of an android, since that seems to be what you are going for.

[Shrike]

Youre half human half machine so you can have both!

[FateWeaver]

Originally posted by Shrike:

Youre half human half machine so you can have both!

Shouldn't you then call the main character a cyborg, instead of an android?

[BlackjackGT]

Originally posted by FateWeaver:

Originally posted by Shrike:

Youre half human half machine so you can have both!

Shouldn't you then call the main character a cyborg, instead of an android?

IIf we're splitting sci-fi semantics, I've tended to view cyborgs as a mix of some physical parts of a human being along with robotic parts.

So, say Robocop has his torso and his head still intact, along with the robotic arms/legs and robotic enhancements to his brain. I feel like a lost opportunity in the mostly forgettable Robocop 2 (director Irvin Kershner didn't bring his Empire Strikes Back magic touch to it) was a brief sequence between Robocop/Murphy and his heartbroken wiife. How much of your humanity do you retain in that situation? Are you more human or more robot?

In the case of Synthetik, it seemed like your brain is essentially popped into an Android body. Not any actual physical parts of your original human body (at least that's how I interpret it).

So to me that's not quite my definition of Cyborg, arguably. :)

[FateWeaver]

Well to me a cyborg is a being enhanced with artificial parts, whether this be an artificial limb or artificial organ, to the entire body being replaced except for the brain.
As long as your brain still has organic parts left you would still be considered a cyborg.
When you ditch the last organic parts of your brain you ascend to become a fully artificial being, a human minded robot.

An android on the other hand is a robot designed to look humanoid from the beginning, but has no human mind, as it was never human to begin with.

[lotuspulse]

It's a corporate dystopia, we can assume "Cyborg" was already trademarked by the competition.

[FateWeaver]

Originally posted by lotuspulse:

It's a corporate dystopia, we can assume "Cyborg" was already trademarked by the competition.

That's kinda brushing the matter under the rug...

[FateWeaver]

Well one way to solve all the confusion is to call the main character a cyborg instead of an android.
That seems simpler than renaming all the items and effects to be more robot specific.

[CryonicSuspension]

Asimov mentioned in one of his books that the word "robot" is Czechoslovakian for "slave".

Cyborg means cybernetic organism - part man, part machine ( like a future Real Doll ). See Terminator 1 & Terminator 2 for more study.

We're all robots...

[Raxus]

I think someone needs to stop having threesomes with merriam and webster and enjoy the fookin game

[AirOne13]

i tend more to the " warframe" route where androids are a mixt between life form and technologie

[CryonicSuspension]

"from Czech, from robota ‘forced labor.’ The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920)."

https://www.google.ca/search?q=define+android&oq=define+android&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1847j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#dobs=robot

[Mr. Pharaoh]

Well, in DBZ universe Krillin knocked up Android 18 and had Marron so...yeah.