Nature vs. Nurture: What Makes Us Human What makes us human? This is the burning question that most people find themselves asking after reading Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, or watching “Blade Runner”, the film that was based off of the novel. In a battle of nature vs nurture, it is unquestionably nurture that takes the victory for what makes us human because, even though androids are not genetically human, they think, act, and feel just like a human does; they live life as humans do, does that not make them human themselves? “Blade Runner” gives us contradicting views of androids. Observers perceive them as human as well as monster. The androids are viewed as monsters when Rick Deckard, a blade runner, is assigned to hunt down and retire a group of escaped androids/replicants to protect the innocent community from the threat of them. We are then given the human side of the androids. Their
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When Roy finds out that Deckard is hunting them down he worries for Pris as well as his fellow replicants. These feelings can also be found in other types of android or robot beings. E.D.I., the AI from the Mass Effect trilogy, falls in love with the pilot of the SSV Normandy, a human. We also see Harkness, a synthetic humanoid from “Fallout 3” showing worry, his concern going to the Lone Wanderer, another human. Feelings such as love, worry, and care that these characters feel are defining emotions that humans have. Besides having instincts and feeling emotions the way humans do artificial beings also act the way humans do. This can be seen in another film, “I, Robot” when Dr. Lanning states, “…Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone?...” These robots seek out the comfort in a light as well as a fellow being, same as humans tend to
When Roy finds out that Deckard is hunting them down he worries for Pris as well as his fellow replicants. These feelings can also be found in other types of android or robot beings. E.D.I., the AI from the Mass Effect trilogy, falls in love with the pilot of the SSV Normandy, a human. We also see Harkness, a synthetic humanoid from “Fallout 3” showing worry, his concern going to the Lone Wanderer, another human. Feelings such as love, worry, and care that these characters feel are defining emotions that humans have. Besides having instincts and feeling emotions the way humans do artificial beings also act the way humans do. This can be seen in another film, “I, Robot” when Dr. Lanning states, “…Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone?...” These robots seek out the comfort in a light as well as a fellow being, same as humans tend to