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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Ash to Ashes to Actuality to Attic

In the episode, "Be Right Back", the character Martha end up losing her husband as they both are just starting their lives. Martha even, unknowingly, is with child whose father is Ash, Martha's love. Ash unexpectedly dies in a crash and Martha has to to mourn the lost of her love as well as the father of her child. She find it so hard to move on, that she indulges in something that even she finds a bit inhumane. She ends u indulging into a program where she is able to here interact with Ash even though he is dead. This is strange to her but she rather encounter the strangeness of him being there but dead, than encounter the pain of Ash not being there at all. She continues this strangeness to listening to his voice through telephone calls through the same program. Her fascination with her love being there but not there at the same time causes such a joy, that it becomes a burden. She loves to here his voice but, again, wants more. She goes through the same program to physically feel Ash's body. At this point she can experience Ash physically but not mentally. She feels as though that she needs him to continue with her pregnancy. She saw the actual Ash to be a rock for her. This A.I. Ash was suppose to be her new but familiar rock. The A.I. Ash was to be like a display rock at a museum. something that looked enough like a real thing, that it made you want to take a double take. The A.I. was a memory until like a said earlier, it became a burden. Because the A.I. Ash was not the real thing but just a surface carbon coy of the actual human Ash, he was just like a memorial. After awhile, after constantly seeing a memory of something that you loved, it becomes more and more clear that thing is gone. This memory brings pain and it had gotten to that extent for Martha. She had to put the A.I. away. She placed him in the attic where things are lost in a way but not at all forgotten. Yes it would have been easier and less like a hoarder to just shut down the A.I. and threw it in the trash but, again this A.I. was the carbon copy of Martha's love Ash. If she was to shut down the A.I. that looked exactly and sounded exactly like Ash, it would have been just as equivalent as being the Uber that killed him. This time should would have had a direct hand in his death and suffered even more. In conclusion an A.I. should not get to a point of advancement  to where it can be a coping mechanism in the way that Martha made it, it would later become more grief and more pain pushed away to deal revisit every now and then, just to torture oneself like going in the attic to look at old pictures. Reminiscing the things in the attic that once were but are no longer.

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