Ep. 6 Page 16
Abt_Nihil on June 15, 2008
Time to clarify something: I commented on Ep. 5 Page 21 that that page would conclude the Milo storyline. By that I meant that what I'd always liked to call “the Milo storyline” - basically the three episodes (3-5) revolving around the reactor incident and the Golem - was over. What it did NOT mean is that there aren't future storylines involving Milo; it would be very odd to just abandon that character, considering there's still so much about him that you don't know, and which would be good to know in order to fully understand what happened in eps. 3-5.
So here's another mention of him; the whole experiment that involved scanning his neural patterns and mapping them onto plasma currents is probably my “deepest” exploration of this comic's central topic - the mind/consciousness/awareness - so far, but until now it's still all just hints and suggestions.
I should mention that I changed the second-to-last speech bubble's text at the last minute: my original script says “Currently there's no way to selectively pick out just one or another specific mental aspect, so we probably weren't able to omit his memory completely; that's why there must have been some sort of artificial identification with Milo.”, but I figured not only is the “mental loop” much more powerful an image, but it's also much shorter. And there's already way too much text on these pages :-)
REPLIES:
Fitz: My point is that it's creepy especially BECAUSE it was “just bits and pieces” :-) My primary source of inspiration here is an issue of the Batman Adventures (the final one actually), in which Dr Strange erases bits and pieces of his own memory, because there's something he wants to forget at all cost. But he continues on to the point where he loses his “self”… the feeling that his personality is coherent. That really creeped me out! Considering your thoughts on digitizing personality: Some take hormones and glands to work quite mechanically, so I wouldn't count out the possibility. Sure, it'd be complex… but the promise of potentially unlimited (i.e. unimaginably gigantic) data storage hovers over our heads at all times.
DAJB: You bet!
cda, patoborracho, trevoramueller, Scorpious: Thanks!
Midge: Nope… I'll go into that later on.
sloo: You're making me blush ;D
sloo at 7:24AM, June 19, 2008
Fantastic job on the art and storytelling :D
TheMidge28 at 10:25AM, June 16, 2008
so it wasn't milo?
DAJB at 12:34AM, June 16, 2008
Oooh - he's going to make Naomi so cross!
Fitz at 11:33PM, June 15, 2008
Transplanting consciousness - eek! Even if it was just bits and pieces of Milo, it's still creepy. The one issue that always makes me wonder is if it's possible to digitize the WHOLE personality. My guess is that it's not - considering how a lot of our behaviors are governed by hormones rather than customs and instincts, and glands aren't something you can easily emulate. And that's just one issue off the top of my head.