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   "catpandaddy"  wrote in message   
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   > "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.   
      
   So, in the episode of Damages "I Look Like Frankenstein", Frobisher (Ted   
   Danson) doesn't look so bad as he thought   
   :)   
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