Yourself?

Just thinking about stuff again. Variations on a theme. Watched chobits ep21, spoke about this guy that married a persocon(robot of a sort) and how the persocon suffered a harddisk failure, and later rescued him from an oncomming vehicle even though it wasn't programmed to do so. And the reason why he didn't change the faulty harddisk was that no matter how little memories remain on the persocon, he wanted to keep them all.

I suppose that's understandable. I'd be very upset if my harddisk crashed. But yeah... I do see the point. If she doesn't remember, and you do, does it make things any less real? Can we say it never happened? Its just a happy memory, with a emotional attachment, and what makes us cry is that there will be nobody to share that beautiful memory with. That something beautiful and pure has been destroyed.

Would men be happier if all memories died with the person? Where when a person died all memories of him, and the fact that he existed, becomes deleted in all the minds of men. Reminds me of the Orwell story... should we manipulate the memories of people in this world to make them happy (or at least not sad) or should we leave things to fate, and make people accept reality as it is?

posted by Downhere. @ 8:17 am