XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv, rec.arts.tv   
   From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "Fred Ellis"  wrote in message   
   news:QXsrn.110440$Ye4.94409@newsfe11.iad...   
   > 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.   
      
   Properly referred to as "Frankenstein's Monster" or "The Frankenstein   
   Monster", to be sure.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)