ANIME

Did you happen to catch that animated show on the Sci-Fi channel a while back called Tripping the Rift? Could you believe that babe? The one called Six? She is apparently modeled after Raquel Welch and Jeri Ryan (the actress who played Seven on Star Trek Voyager).

I am fascinated by the ever-increasing sophistication of computer animation. It is getting more and more difficult to distinguish it from the real thing. A couple years ago I watched Final Fantasy. I was more spellbound by the animation than the movie per se.

I've seen some animations recently that could easily fool people from the past if they could somehow come forward in time and observe them (Polar Express comes to mind).

Because it is happening in our own time, we are of course able to make the distinction. But the time is coming, and very soon, when even we won't be able to tell the difference, at least at first glance. Maybe, if we take a real close look at it, we might be able to make the discernment, but I wouldn't bet on it.

The mind races in wonderment over the whole thing. Will actors some day be replaced by animations? And if actors, why not other people as well? Like in the sports world. Do we really have to have flesh-and-blood athletes? Have you seen the computer games lately? The animated jocks are looking more and more like real people every year. Is there a limit to all this?

Could you "get off" with an animated babe? I got a feeling you could, especially if she looks anything near like that Six chick on Tripping the Rift. And even she could be improved. As good as her animation is now, it's easy to see that she could be further enhanced, to the point where you couldn't tell the difference between her the real thing.

You can do things with animations that you can't do in real life, things that you know you want to do, like have sex with an unlimited assortment of animated sex toys. You can call them sex cyborgs if you want. Makes no difference to me what you call them. They're still sex toys.

If you're into sports, you can have athletes designed to your desired specs and pit them against someone else's.

If you wanted to, you could just have an animated companion, someone simply to talk to.

In a word, animation has the power to give us an irresistible form of control. That alone will compel us to keep on improving it, till we reach the point where we won't be able to tell the difference between a computer animation and a real person.

And that really makes me wonder. Is it possible that we are computer animations ourselves? If Someone made> us (with the emphasis on the word made), it is entirely possible to view ourselves as the equivalent of a computer animation, especially from the perspective of the Maker. It is something that we would have in common with a computer animation. We would both be things that were made, as opposed to beings that simply grew or evolved.

It kinda puts a whole new slant on the God/creation/evolution debate, now doesn't it?