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Chobits
*spoiler alert*
So I watched the entire season of Chobits in two days. I had seen some of it a few years ago and I just decided to watch it all. I'm surprised to say that it actually made me think. I was really just expecting humor and other light matters. But once the series progressed, many deeper issues surfaced, like the nature of relationships between humans and "computers" and what it means to love someone for who they are.
These qualities kind of sneek up on you and I found myself thinking about it. At first, it was a little too hard for me to get over the fact that Chi was not human - she was a robot, created by a human. It's still something that I'm thinking about. But to my surprise, Ueda said something that affected me, about how persocoms have things they can and cannot do, just like humans. And also when he said that he had loved Yumi not because she was or wasn't a persocom, but simply because of who she was.
In the end, realistically, the idea of humans being able to have relationships with artificial intelligence is not feasible. But Chobits is not meant to be exactly like reality, like most stories, it represents ideas. This is the idea that I appreciated: Hideki loved Chi not because she was or wasn't human, but because of who she was. This is what the story books represented. "The person just for me" and the one that would love her for her, these are ideas that we, as humans, should understand and emulate.
I do not believe humans are polygamous in nature when it comes to romantic relationships; I don't know about you, but I am not an animal. And people will say that we are, that we driven by primal instincts. These are people who have given up hope in what is truly meaningful. I don't believe people are good inherently, but there is more to life than being an animal. Call me idealistic if you want, but I'm holding out for "the person just for me", not because I'm living in fantasy, but because I really, truly do believe it's possible.
And not just for me, but for others as well.
So uh...yeah, I liked Chobits... =)
So I watched the entire season of Chobits in two days. I had seen some of it a few years ago and I just decided to watch it all. I'm surprised to say that it actually made me think. I was really just expecting humor and other light matters. But once the series progressed, many deeper issues surfaced, like the nature of relationships between humans and "computers" and what it means to love someone for who they are.
These qualities kind of sneek up on you and I found myself thinking about it. At first, it was a little too hard for me to get over the fact that Chi was not human - she was a robot, created by a human. It's still something that I'm thinking about. But to my surprise, Ueda said something that affected me, about how persocoms have things they can and cannot do, just like humans. And also when he said that he had loved Yumi not because she was or wasn't a persocom, but simply because of who she was.
In the end, realistically, the idea of humans being able to have relationships with artificial intelligence is not feasible. But Chobits is not meant to be exactly like reality, like most stories, it represents ideas. This is the idea that I appreciated: Hideki loved Chi not because she was or wasn't human, but because of who she was. This is what the story books represented. "The person just for me" and the one that would love her for her, these are ideas that we, as humans, should understand and emulate.
I do not believe humans are polygamous in nature when it comes to romantic relationships; I don't know about you, but I am not an animal. And people will say that we are, that we driven by primal instincts. These are people who have given up hope in what is truly meaningful. I don't believe people are good inherently, but there is more to life than being an animal. Call me idealistic if you want, but I'm holding out for "the person just for me", not because I'm living in fantasy, but because I really, truly do believe it's possible.
And not just for me, but for others as well.
So uh...yeah, I liked Chobits... =)