I know we’re all here for the laughs, but this is really fertile ground for all manner of philosophical rabbit holes.

My favorite foray into this topic is none other than Battlestar Galactica (the newer one). A peak moment for this was watching a Cylon have a complete emotional melt-down because they had to witness a supernova, filling the sky with all manner of EM radiation, with frakkin’ eyeballs that can’t see even half of that. Why? Because he’s a machine stuck in a fleshy body and he’s really unhappy about it. And the show just keeps mashing things up, blurring the lines between man and machine like that, all the way through to the end.