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[8 JULY] [DOLLHOUSE] [THE SOUL IN BINARY]
Title: The Soul In Binary
Day/Theme: 8th July 2010; here we are now in containers
Series: Dollhouse
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Unnamed Programmer
Rating: G
Notes: No spoilers.
He holds in his hands a little box, and knows that within its confines lies the closest thing there is to a solid human "soul". Men of philosophy and religion had long since debated the eixstence of such a thing and what it represented, what it could even possibly look like. The answer is simple: data. To measure one's soul, all a person has to do is count the ones and zeroes.
But of course they have gone further than that. If it can be measured, it can be contained. It can be manipulated. He and the other programmers have that power. Science, unfettered by flimsy notions of ethics, has granted them that. They can make and unmake individuals, granting them knowledge and skills or taking them away as needed. Within each of these wedges life exists, frozen in time and ready to be birthed or resurrected at a moment's notice. Immortality is bestowed this way upon those with enough power to earn it - or enough money to buy it. He himself exists in some fashion this way, as do all the other programmers. They have earned it after all.
This, he thinks, is what it means to be a god.
Day/Theme: 8th July 2010; here we are now in containers
Series: Dollhouse
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Unnamed Programmer
Rating: G
Notes: No spoilers.
He holds in his hands a little box, and knows that within its confines lies the closest thing there is to a solid human "soul". Men of philosophy and religion had long since debated the eixstence of such a thing and what it represented, what it could even possibly look like. The answer is simple: data. To measure one's soul, all a person has to do is count the ones and zeroes.
But of course they have gone further than that. If it can be measured, it can be contained. It can be manipulated. He and the other programmers have that power. Science, unfettered by flimsy notions of ethics, has granted them that. They can make and unmake individuals, granting them knowledge and skills or taking them away as needed. Within each of these wedges life exists, frozen in time and ready to be birthed or resurrected at a moment's notice. Immortality is bestowed this way upon those with enough power to earn it - or enough money to buy it. He himself exists in some fashion this way, as do all the other programmers. They have earned it after all.
This, he thinks, is what it means to be a god.