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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 3662823" data-attributes="member: 4720">Which only goes to show you how little the designers understand about human (or comparative) cognition <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />And don't get me started on Roddenberry and (far worse) those who came after him.&nbsp; They took a cute idea and ran in entirely the wrong direction with it, and I've had to spend disturbingly large sections of my adult life gritting my teeth when my fellow Star Trek fans start waxing rhapsodic about Vulcans.Your average snake is a very logical creature.&nbsp; If you disturb it or its home, it bites you.&nbsp; If you leave it alone, it leaves you alone, barring if you're a snack-sized critter and it isn't full.&nbsp; If it is full, and you're not prodding at it, it ALSO leaves you alone.&nbsp; It makes SENSE.&nbsp; It behaves logically.&nbsp; And.... it makes pretty much all of its decisions with what you and I would call emotions.Outside of brain damage, you don't see much in the way of erratic or irrational behavior in the animal kingdom.... right up until you hit critters with some moderate &quot;cognitive capacity.&quot;&nbsp; THINKING is what causes animals (and humans) to behave illogically.&nbsp; Left to its own devices, the body gets along very well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 3662823, member: 4720"] Which only goes to show you how little the designers understand about human (or comparative) cognition ;) And don't get me [i]started[/i] on Roddenberry and (far worse) those who came after him. They took a cute idea and ran in entirely the wrong direction with it, and I've had to spend disturbingly large sections of my adult life gritting my teeth when my fellow Star Trek fans start waxing rhapsodic about Vulcans. Your average snake is a very logical creature. If you disturb it or its home, it bites you. If you leave it alone, it leaves you alone, barring if you're a snack-sized critter and it isn't full. If it is full, and you're not prodding at it, it ALSO leaves you alone. It makes SENSE. It behaves [i]logically[/i]. And.... it makes pretty much all of its decisions with what you and I would call emotions. Outside of brain damage, you don't see much in the way of erratic or irrational behavior in the animal kingdom.... right up until you hit critters with some moderate "cognitive capacity." THINKING is what causes animals (and humans) to behave illogically. Left to its own devices, the body gets along very well. [/QUOTE]

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