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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 2535764" data-attributes="member: 151">I think there is definte jealousy in Six...she clearly is jealous of both Starbuck (a rival for Gaius affections, as far as she can tell) and Boomer.  I suspect it's not that Boomer is capable of having kids when Six is not, but rather that Boomer has been selected to have the child and test human love (whereas Six has not been).Compare: Boomer has two men who are in love with her, who were willing to put their lives and careers at risk to protect her.  They love(d) and trust(ed) her.  Now look who Six was given: Gaius Baltar...a womanizing coward who lacks commitment, drive or courage.  Do you think Baltar would do anything that didn't benefit or bring pleasure to anyone but himself?  He claims to love Six...but it's a pretty selfish love.Moreover, I think Six lacks the CAPACITY for love.  Her AI isn't really designed to do it.  Remember the conversation on Caprica with the other anthroform (news guy)?  She was clearly pained when he speculated: "what does it feel like?"  She is aware enough to know that she can't love (or at the very least has never experienced it), not truly, and it drives her crazy.  She can inspire fantastic lust, sure...but Baltar's repeated trysts shows how hollow that power actually is.RDM has claimed that each anthroform represents an aspect of humanity, as seen through the cylon lens.  That raises lots of interesting questions about what kind of criteria they used.  I think the Boomer-Legion on the Basestar summed it up: they didn't say "Let's kill mankind!"; they told Boomer they loved her.  Which, btw, I think shows that each Boomer is separate yet similar; I think they act like nodes in a peer-to-peer network.  Boomer-C is a supernode, sharing important experience which is spread to other Boomers in chunks over time...not the direct stimulus and experience, but the intellectual data.  Boomer-C remembers shooting Adama...but it's more of an odd fact to her.  I doubt she actually has a strong visual memory, just that she recalls the facts and details of the event, not true experience.  This would also make data transfer much easier, as the relevant data would be much smaller.I could also be smoking the rock.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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