So I don't get why Amanda Perry who is a scientist decided to base the parameters of her simulation on an abstract and completely unmeasurable concept like love. Just seems like something that someone who is scientifically minded would have understood would end in trouble.
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Originally posted by D Toccs View PostSo I don't get why Amanda Perry who is a scientist decided to base the parameters of her simulation on an abstract and completely unmeasurable concept like love. Just seems like something that someone who is scientifically minded would have understood would end in trouble.
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Originally posted by Pharaoh Atem View Postshe's never experinced love before she's spent her life in a wheel chair and with her breathing problems didn't get out much. now that's she on destiny and able to walk and live to a point. she is a kid expericing things for the first time. her concept of love is different then the actually meaning thus why either the simulation or destiny didn't understand and thus why the program couldn't be shut down.Click the banner or episode links to visit the virtual continuations of Stargate!Previous Episode: 11x03 "Shore Leave" | Previous Episode: 6x04 "Nightfall" | Now Airing: 3x06 "Eldest"The Continuing Stargate Wiki | Stargate: Avalon l The New "Ark of Truth" | Stargate: Universe Reviews | Banner designs by Alx
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Originally posted by D Toccs View PostSo I don't get why Amanda Perry who is a scientist decided to base the parameters of her simulation on an abstract and completely unmeasurable concept like love. Just seems like something that someone who is scientifically minded would have understood would end in trouble.
I think that this idea is alluded to when Telford wryly asks McKay, "What is it with genius and social skills?" Geniuses like McKay and Perry I think don't really understand what love is--as well as other emotions--because it's all outside of their realm of understanding.Last edited by Cold Fuzz; 05 April 2011, 07:30 PM.sigpic
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If it was connected to his mind it may be able to extrapolate what love is and how to measure it.I'VE GONE WIKI-MAD!!!!
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Originally posted by escyos View PostIf it was connected to his mind it may be able to extrapolate what love is and how to measure it.Click the banner or episode links to visit the virtual continuations of Stargate!Previous Episode: 11x03 "Shore Leave" | Previous Episode: 6x04 "Nightfall" | Now Airing: 3x06 "Eldest"The Continuing Stargate Wiki | Stargate: Avalon l The New "Ark of Truth" | Stargate: Universe Reviews | Banner designs by Alx
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Originally posted by escyos View PostIf it was connected to his mind it may be able to extrapolate what love is and how to measure it.
There's no biological process for love, it is all completely abstract.
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Originally posted by D Toccs View PostNo way. Love cannot be quantified or measured by any standards. People can be in love and not even know it themselves. You can passionately hate someone and yet still passionately love them.
There's no biological process for love, it is all completely abstract.sigpic
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Originally posted by D Toccs View PostNo way. Love cannot be quantified or measured by any standards. People can be in love and not even know it themselves. You can passionately hate someone and yet still passionately love them.
There's no biological process for love, it is all completely abstract.I'VE GONE WIKI-MAD!!!!
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Originally posted by dgh64 View PostI was a bit confused by that part as well. Why would Perry put that into the sim's parameters in the first place? And, why would she make it so Rush can get in but then he can't get back out again?
As for getting in, if Star Trek has taught us anything, realistic simulations have no problem letting people in, but refuse to let go once they're a part of the simulation.
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Originally posted by D Toccs View PostNo way. Love cannot be quantified or measured by any standards. People can be in love and not even know it themselves. You can passionately hate someone and yet still passionately love them.
There's no biological process for love, it is all completely abstract.
Everything and anything that humans experience can be measured, understood and reproduced. Psychological factors and chemical reactions account for every little "feeling" that lovers have. Humans have no transcendental characteristic, spiritual doorway to forever or any of that mystical mumbo-jumbo (designed to distract our consciousness from the ever present promise of nothingness)
PS: To save you some time I'll answer in advance to the most common critique againsit this line of thought -> I'm not some lonely kid living in his parents basement with a grudge against what he is unable to get. I have been in love more than once and I'm not talking just out of textbooks"Gegen diesen Idioten muss ich verlieren!" (A. Nimzowitsch)
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I wondered whether subconciously she chose that scenario as a test?
She's been in love with Rush for years (even while he was still married) but he didn't respond to her as more than a friend until recently. Maybe she was feeling insecure and wanted proof that he loved her the way he'd loved Gloria?
Of course if the parameters she set for 'loving each other' were Rush replicating her feelings for him then it would never have worked. Two people are unlikely to have exactly the same feelings (or chemical reactions in the brain if you prefer) even if they are genuinely in love as far as each is concerned.
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