To categorise a replicant as a robot is simply incorrect. It is like suggesting that a rocking horse is a pony on the grounds that they look similar and you can ride them both. One is clearly alive and the other is not.
Androids are (by looking at the root of the word) things that look like men. It's a term commonly given to any kind of humaniform robot.
R2D2 is a robot because he doesn't look human. C3PO is an android.
Bishop from Aliens is (although squishy) is an humaniform robot and thus termed an android (although I understand they prefer the term Artificial Person).
A genetically modified lifeform is simply a variant of that species. IMO a replicant is human. Artificially created, yes, but definitely a human.
Sadly it's 0120 here so I won't be around to see any reply. A shame because pedantry is the essence of geekery :) 'nite
(Androids are (by looking at the root of the word) things that look like men. It's a term commonly given to any kind of humaniform robot.
R2D2 is a robot because he doesn't look human. C3PO is an android.
Bishop from Aliens is (although squishy) is an humaniform robot and thus termed an android (although I understand they prefer the term Artificial Person).
A genetically modified lifeform is simply a variant of that species. IMO a replicant is human. Artificially created, yes, but definitely a human.
Sadly it's 0120 here so I won't be around to see any reply. A shame because pedantry is the essence of geekery :) 'nite
Ratsta,
Thu 21 Aug 2008, 16:15,
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