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Exactly the image I had in mind.B Creech wrote: ↑03 Apr 2020, 13:23Thanks for the insight! It is very interesting what can be done to the mind. I've been sort of freaked out since I saw a video on Youtube of the robot Sophie!! She is what I thought about when I first started reading this book. Tau reminded me of her, he was just more advanced. If you've never seen her check her out! To me she's scary!Tavaiel26 wrote: ↑03 Apr 2020, 11:27 It sort of goes into the creepiest aspects of the book. Think for example of feral children. Without guidance in their early years, some of these children never catch up to normal human behaviors. Tau didn't know any different.
You are right, Tau was programmed, but this is something you can do to humans as well! Experiments into these areas were done a lot in the early years of psychology... before we started to care about things like morality and ethics.
Even with Kalin, when he starts falling into the belief that he is a clone. The process known as "breaking" is actually used a lot in gangs and human trafficking. There is a limit to how much the human physique can take before it just accepts whatever brings less pain.
I'm sorry if this got super dark! I actually studied psychology and criminology and I found these aspects of the book super interesting!
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That is very interesting! It is for sure he was programmed by the scientists to do their bidding. The human brain can also be 'programmed' by hearing the same thing over and over again.Ebby Brown wrote: ↑25 May 2020, 16:06 I think project Tau is a clone of human in the form of a robot. Initially it functions like a robot but later discover his human nature. Just like in surgery, tissue transplant, the body takes some time, days or months to either accept or reject the graft. The same way project Tau realise his other nature when Kalin begins to question him. I can say Tau is an advanced robot.
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Yes, it did suppress his mind until Kalin kept telling him over and over. Repetition, especially in a controlled environment can definitely change the thoughts of the human brain. I agree it is scary how programmed people can be. Just look at the pandemic we are battling now. How long did it take for the entire world to put on masks and stay six feet apart when the 'professionals' started telling us day after day to do that. Now that the country is trying to open up again many of us are so programmed to what we were told in the beginning that now we fear to take our masks off! We have been programmed!Snowflake wrote: ↑22 May 2020, 10:57 The point about Tau being more like a robot is an interesting one. It is scary how advanced robots can be. It is also scary how programmed people can be. I can see why you would think, that as a clone, Tau would have more of a start on original thinking but it would seem that life with the scientists suppressed that until Kalin came along.
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And the breaking out of both Project, Kata and Kalin is what makes this book even more amazing. It really gives it a good impression of what to expect in the next novel. That is if at all they will be another one.
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