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   From: fkellis@sticx.net   
      
   RT wrote:   
   > trag wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mar 26, 10:08 am, jack  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>Does anyone remember how cylons' self-consciousness was activated in   
   >>>the old series?  The parallels here to the Terminator series are   
   >>>pretty close and I wonder which story of self-activating AI/robots   
   >>>turning into genocidal killers came first.   
   >>   
   >>Frankenstein...   
   >   
   >   
   > Frankenstein had a human brain. Slightly used, but human. It had self   
   > consciousness to begin with. But it did rebell.   
      
   I hate to tell you this but Frankenstein was the scientist that created   
   the monster.  Dr. Frankenstein never gave the monster a name.  I believe   
   it was always called the creature or monster.   
      
      
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