Considering All That I Have

Considering all that I have read regarding this Star Trek Episode, The Measure of a Man, I can truly say that Piccard had a Dualism view when it came to the situation at hand with Data. He believed that data was a close to being a human as possible. When a robot is given the rank of a Lt Commander, I would have to question this fact. It seems a little strange to give a typical robot that kind of rank. Hasker told us that “Dualism begins by taking quite seriously the fact that human beings have both physical and mental properties.” Piccard I must say took Data very seriously. Data after finding out that he was going to be disassembled by Maddox and he may not be able to put him back together, refuses to have this done. This shows that Data to me must have some human attributes, because no one would volunteer to have that down that was human. Maddox on the other hand had a more idealism view on the subject. He made several reference to Data as “it.”This is something that humans do not refer to one another as. Data was nothing more than an idea to Maddox a computer as some might say. He felt he had no rights as a robot and should not be allowed to refuse to participate in the project. Maddox stats that Data has no soul. To those that worked with Data he was considered one of the family and to those that, like Maddox he was just a robot with a computer processor for a brain. When humans are around many objects we begin having a bond with that object. It’s almost like an alcoholic, they form a bound with their alcohol it is their life.
Maddox states during the hearing that, “Intelligence, self-awareness and consciousness,” are three criteria for a sentient being. Picard proves that Data has all three of these criteria and he proved the case and won and Lt Commander Data was given the right to chose.
I would have to say that I believe that God created us in his image, and I do not feel that Data was created in the image of