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Altered Carbon - Netflix

I want to be backed up

I'll tell you why I don't care to be.

It's identical to a transporter, which literally copies an individual, kills them, breaks them into an unlimited number of components, and recreates them on the other side with the same memories of the original, but the original? They dead.

A backup consciousness in a new sleeve won't be you regaining consciousness. it's a copy of your consciousness.
 
I'll tell you why I don't care to be.

It's identical to a transporter, which literally copies an individual, kills them, breaks them into an unlimited number of components, and recreates them on the other side with the same memories of the original, but the original? They dead.

A backup consciousness in a new sleeve won't be you regaining consciousness. it's a copy of your consciousness.

this is an interesting philosophical debate. what is consciousness? Descartes says the only thing we can be sure of is that we exist. Is our consciousness really an unbroken line? There is no proof, only evidence that we experienced it at some particular time.

what happens when you are asleep? that disconnect from reality, where our minds are whirling with ideas and scenarios never to be remembered. we wake up, the dreams get erased, and we start back to where we were prior to the dream state.

When your consciousness is suspended while you to get uploaded into a new skin, things are happening to your very being that will not be remembered.
 
Anyone know the name/type of knife that Mister Leung uses? It's super badass.

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Anyone know the name/type of knife that Mister Leung uses? It's super badass. Trying to find pic of it.

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Pretty certain it's a prop made for the movie. It did look devastating as it tore chunks out of the Detective lady.
 
Great casting. But I find I'm obsessed with Dichen Lachman's face: I'm simultaneously drawn to it and repelled by it. Can't explain. Fascinating.

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Story line basically crazy jealous sister goes bezerker on brother with relationship issues.
 
Great casting. But I find I'm obsessed with Dichen Lachman's face: I'm simultaneously drawn to it and repelled by it. Can't explain. Fascinating.

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I have been in love with her ever since Agents of Shield. I want to feed her a sandwich and have all her babies.


this is an interesting philosophical debate. what is consciousness? Descartes says the only thing we can be sure of is that we exist. Is our consciousness really an unbroken line? There is no proof, only evidence that we experienced it at some particular time.

what happens when you are asleep? that disconnect from reality, where our minds are whirling with ideas and scenarios never to be remembered. we wake up, the dreams get erased, and we start back to where we were prior to the dream state.

When your consciousness is suspended while you to get uploaded into a new skin, things are happening to your very being that will not be remembered.

Yeah that is one of the things I love about this piece. We have had a lot of discussions on the board about violence and humanity, I have long professed that there will be no end to mass scale violence until Humanity enters a post mortality society, and this show gives an excellent window into what that might begin to look like in its early stages.
 
Yeah I didn't want to be negative but she's built like a broomstick in the show. And we get to see everything. I guess that's the kind of build a ninja would have.
 
Yeah I didn't want to be negative but she's built like a broomstick in the show. And we get to see everything. I guess that's the kind of build a ninja would have.

Not trying to turn it into a body shame thread, but I prefer women with a bit more to garb onto than her, but I saw her in Agents of Shield and I was like, "Holy Shit, who is THAT?" Same thing when she was on Supergirl. That actress just has a way about her I guess. Screen Presence, Magnetism, kind of the opposite of how I see Martha Higareda.

Like, people keep saying her acting as Ortega was terrible, but I don't see that. When I see terrible acting, I can see them reading the script, the line delivery sucks. With her it isn't that for me, her lines don't jar me out of my suspension of disbelief as false, she just has no charisma to me, like I just have a hard time giving a shit about what her character is, because she just strikes me as an uninteresting character/person.

I did really like the episode with her abuelita though, that was awesome.
 
Not trying to turn it into a body shame thread, but I prefer women with a bit more to garb onto than her, but I saw her in Agents of Shield and I was like, "Holy Shit, who is THAT?" Same thing when she was on Supergirl. That actress just has a way about her I guess. Screen Presence, Magnetism, kind of the opposite of how I see Martha Higareda.

Like, people keep saying her acting as Ortega was terrible, but I don't see that. When I see terrible acting, I can see them reading the script, the line delivery sucks. With her it isn't that for me, her lines don't jar me out of my suspension of disbelief as false, she just has no charisma to me, like I just have a hard time giving a shit about what her character is, because she just strikes me as an uninteresting character/person.

I did really like the episode with her abuelita though, that was awesome.

I liked the abuelita too, especially when they used the sleeve later, but they spent way way way too much time on her crazy family that I don't care about.

She seems like a fine actress, but I can't see past her stereotypicalness of character. Angry sexy latina lady with a hidden agenda and a Catholic family that disapproves of her. And she still bangs Kovacs.
 
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