perplexme | Fiftieth Keychain

Entry tags:

axel,
potential bbs spoilers in kh cast thread,
roxas means srs business,
sora,
vanitas,
ven,
xion

Fiftieth Keychain - [Written]

[Filtered from Vanitas and Ven to the rest of the KH cast]

Okay. How many of you guys think this wasn't just some weird kind of coincidence?

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[Filtered to Xion]

I think I need to talk to you soon...it's important.

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[Filtered to Axel]

I learned something really interesting about you.

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So Luceti...what exactly makes a person real or not? What qualities and characteristics mean that a person exists instead of just being a weird figment? Trust me, it's important.

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How would you prove that back where you're from?

Well, I'd look it up somewhere, and check the experiments done to prove it, and replicate that if I had the means. But animals except for humans aren't really sapient. Bugs especially.

People from your world really experiment on ants? [Roxas, that's probably not the point.]

Well, yeah. Just observational science has limits. [No, but it's an interesting one.]

...what other limits are there? [Sorry, Paru, you've pinged Roxas' curiosity.]

What do you mean? [Hey, it gives her a chance to sound smart.]

You just said science has limits. What kind?

Well, by the tools we have, for one. We can't figure out lots of things without tools designed for it, and they aren't foolproof. And, of course, there's the problem that it's all done by people.

The tools thing makes sense, but...what about if it were all done by something else? Not people. Would that make a difference?

In my world, at least, there's nothing but people that can do it. Computers, no matter how smart they get, are still only able to do what they're told to do, and animals, like I said, don't think.

Computers are stupid anyway. [Maybe a bit bitter about past experience with them, don't mind him.] If animals can't think though, what would you call all of the decisions that they make? Instinct?

Yep, exactly.

But don't animals have to be able to think that something's wrong to act on their instinct?

That's not thinking.

What would you call it then?

Like you said, acting on instinct. There's no real thinking there.

But you'd have to think that something, whatever it is, is either good or bad. Doesn't that make sense?

Not really. All they really care about is surviving and reproducing.

... then again, a lot of humans are the same way, so maybe that's a bad point.

So basically humans and animals usually don't think.

... I guess. But like I said, the difference is in sapience. Animals don't have that. There might be a book on it around in the library somewhere.

Yeah? Guess I'll take a look since I'm already here. Thanks.

No problem. It'd do a better job of explaining than me.

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