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Could you even have a persuasive simulated Lou Reed without his struggles with substance abuse being in there somewhere? That might sound facetious, but I'm se
by Turing_Machine 3y ago
Could you even have a persuasive simulated Lou Reed without his struggles with substance abuse being in there somewhere?
That might sound facetious, but I'm serious. It might not be explicitly stated, but IMO it'd have to be at least tacitly present.
If you took out the drug/alcohol abuse, the result would be a simulation of a different person, not Lou Reed as we know him (same with, say, Keith Richards, or any number of others one could name).
- cfr2023 3y agoI don't think this sounds facetious. People and their life experiences are essentially inextricable. Nature vs. nurture stuff. Separating/abstracting person from their experiences is as you say, a representation of a different, non-existent person - a mutant. Or worse still, some kind of dissection. Disliking peanuts and being allergic to them each motivate abstaining from eating peanuts, an imitation of that person that abstained from eating peanuts without insight into why would be a rather pale imitation indeed.