Movies | September 16, 2009 | 3 comments

Dollhouse, memories and soul

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The starting idea of Dollhouse, the new series of Joss Whedon, creator of cult TV series like Buffy and Firefly, is that our personality is like a computer program, a series of data we obtained during life through experiences, choices, memories. If all of these things could be erased from our brains we would stop being ourselves and become empty shells. In the show a powerful and mysterious organization has precisely the technology to do just that.
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    • I was impressed with the way they handled it last season, since they exposed in the flaw in the theory that memories can be erased completely without some bleed through coming back to haunt them.

      So they basically disproved the misguided notion that people can be programmed like computers since the connections in nuerons can't be kept separate like circuits in a computer as the season went along.

      I especially liked how they went into kind of hubris that takes to think that people could be controlled absolutely and how the people suffered some serious consequences as the result of that shortsighted mindset.

      The season finale with Echo having access to all the imprints at once was intriguing for the way it pointed out the synthesis of whole emerging to become more than the sum of the parts.

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