Caprica (s1ep7): The Imperfections of Memory – ****
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[+] Anyone else think watching Caprica is like watching a plane fall out of the sky? You know what will happen at the end, but right now you’re just watching these people make mistake after mistake. And these mistakes are like a chain of events that will eventually lead to their downfall.

[+] Clarice: “Amanda is the mother of Zoe, and if Zoe is the mother of life everlasting, there is a connection. God is using these women to speak to me. And I have to listen.”

[+] Lacy to Zoe: “The original Zoe wanted me to get on that train, not you. I have never let you down.”

[+] Zoe: “People see this place as an excuse to cut corners, drop out of life, or do things that they know are wrong.” 

[+] Philomon:“Maybe, someone didn’t want to program a million different trees.”
Zoe:“Living systems use generative algorithms. With a generative model, the system would use a basic generative kernel of a tree. And pow! An infinite variety of tree-like trees.”
Philomon:“I work with top secret military robots.” Zoe:“That’s really hot.” 

[+] Zoe:“If you could program a robot using a generative model, like something in nature, it could benefit from a modulatory input. Like living in the real world.”
Philomon:“And those inputs would be different every time. Each robot would be unique. Uncopyable.”
Zoe:“That’s not really my point. My point is that a robot could benefit from being in the real world. Let it out. Explore. Get it out of the lab.”
Philomon:“Uncopyable. Because it’s analog! Thank you, thank you!” 

[+] Amanda:”Do you remember that old saying ‘All this has happened before, and all this will happen again’?”

[+] Amanda:“They say surviving is the punishment for leaving things unsaid. I dunno who said it. Maybe I made it up. But it’s true.” 

[+] Daniel:”Zoe?”