Hmmm...just watched a show on robots. The illusion of reality seems to be on "body language", which is a strange concept, asap! Even though the "face" of this robot is a mask a la Darth Vadar, it has a personality. What does that mean? If an object mimics the human condition, and one has empathy for the object, as one might have for the "live" version, what does that mean? What is it, then, to be human? What are the responses of the observer? I love the constant unexpectedness of the 21st Century, which is just being created now, now that we are relinquishing the desire to stuff the 20th Century models into the new terrain of the 21st. So, if we can create avatars that mimic the human experience, and the avatar world enjoys an emotional response, what does that mean? What is it to be human? Well, we may think we have the answer to this conundrum, but do we, in this blurred universe that the digital world has delivered to us? Hmmm...am pondering the singular question of these opening days of the 21st Century...what is it to be "human"? How wonderful, in our culture/our time, that I can even ask the question. Lucky me, to be here, to be here "now".