Thoughts on Swampman Thought Experiment and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? What is the difference between a perfect copy and the original?
Kodoani.com – The following are the main contents of Summertime Rendering Tập 7“Enemy”
Seventh episode of Summer time Rendering, “Enemy”, offers a challenging view of Shinpei in the face of Shiori Kobayakawa’s shadow. The guy was forced to consider the difference between clones and humans. Shinpei grapples with whether a Shadow with the same memories, body, and mind as the original humans would make them different.
While Hizuru, possessed by Ryuunosuke, tried to destroy the Kobayaka shadow family, the shadow Shiori managed to escape. Shinpei slyly tried to grab her as she escaped. In a fit of rage, Shinpei questions Shiori about whether she was the one who killed Ushio. Shiori coldly confirms that she is Ushio’s killer and is trying to escape with her family as the end is near. She then explains that while the original Shiori was killed, there are the same memories, body and mind that made up her Shiori Kobayakawa. This episode introduces the concept of Swampman Thought Experiment and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into the story.
Swampman Thought Experiment
Donald Herbert Davidson’s Swampman Thought Experiment concluded that if the copy doesn’t share the same history as the original, it will be different from the original. In Summertime Rendering following the Shiori shadow, the shadows are confirmed to share the same body, mind, and memories as the humans they recreate. Having someone’s memory means sharing their history.
By applying Davidson’s Swampman Thought Experiment to compare the differences between the Shadow clone and the original human, the Shadow clone will resemble the person they cloned. Shiori’s Shadow clone shows that she is still Shiori Kobayakawa, just born. However, the shadow’s uncanny power to manipulate their physical form, coupled with their superior speed and strength, set them apart in abilities.
Empathy in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
In Philip K. Dick’s story, do Androids dream of electric sheep? The novel’s consensus is that the difference between a robot and a human is that robots lack empathy. This is also what Shadows of Summertime Rendering seems to be missing.
The Shadows don’t seem to care about the humans they kill, as they kill families and innocent people mercilessly without hesitation. The shadows are therefore significantly different from humans due to their inability to empathize, as seen in the show so far.
Abnormalities of Ushio’s shadow
This theory begins to differ from Ushio’s version of the Shadow. Ushio’s Shadow clone seems to care deeply about Shinpei. While she has the same body, mind, and memories as the human version of Ushio, she also shows empathy for Shinpei’s human friends.
During the summer festival, she expressed her sadness when Mio was taken away by the Darkness, and saved Shinpei from the Four-armed Darkness. The clone of Ushio, while having the same body, behavior, and history as the human Ushio, coupled with a sense of empathy, makes her almost identical to her original self, except for the supernatural abilities she possesses. He possesses like a Shadow.
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