18 May
2001
18 May
'01
3:36 p.m.
If Orac had been given the choice in the so-named episode would it have preferred to go with Servalan or with Blake? Orac shows enough understanding (as distinct from awareness) to make a reasoned choice.
POV Avon, Orac is "just a machine"--in other words, doesn't even qualify for his slimline view of human rights--but shouldn't have Blake been worried about the freedom of the honest AI to think and speak?
Does Avon's view on this change as time goes by? He does tend to talk to the machine as time goes on. It helps him put his thoughts in order, but is he also seeing the machine as a companion?