Ahh I really like the simple nature of the drawing and use of negative space. Well done

So simple, and yet so elegant. Very nice piece.

Morcabot: EXTERMINATE

Heck I understand pretty well what you mean and the picture is done very well... I will set it as my background if it's OK. Wish people would understand that "Difference" doesn't mean that someone is broken.

Hum... that's actually a very interesting point of view on things. Of course, there's a lengthy discussion on the horizon about what a soul is and whether or not we have it, or machines can acquire it, but that'll be handled when it comes about.

As much as I enjoy your shaded work, I love monochrome stylization, so thumbs up for this one; especially cuz you could sell shirts of this 1:1

I feel the exact same way, sometimes it makes me hate myself in a small way. I completely understand where you're coming from on this.

Definitely a lovely minimalistic feel to it. I think it accents the concept quite well, actually!

Personally, I think the biggest difference between living beings and robots is...living beings are horribly flawed in a logical sense. However, these flaws are part of what make people interesting and lovable. A living being's personality is a sense of organized chaos, and how the chaos is organized helps makes us all unique.

I think what that you're explaining isn't uncommon, or from what I've come to understand. A number of people I know, including myself, generally find it difficult to empathise with people going through heightened emotional stages. On certain occasions I do, but only when I myself am in a heightened state of emotion, otherwise I will be feeling very little and most of my thought process would be spent understanding the situation from a logical standpoint. Sympathy means that you have an understanding, though it often becomes repetitive and sometimes, as you said, cold. It is a common trait among people with Asperger's, however this isn't necessarily always the case, and more often than not I think you will find that most people you meet have some mild form of it, but again the definition is very vague.

While I agree that simply saying "sorry" and giving them a pat on the back is a waste of time, if a friend is in need sometimes that's just what they need. I do what I can to comfort them, and if I believe it is appropriate I would offer them advice as well. It is always a good opportunity to learn from these situations as well. Having said that, I also have emotional needs from time to time, and so long as there's someone to listen, that's usually all I need.

On the topic in focus, whether or not robots could potentially have souls, depends on what your definition of the soul is. A lack of emotion isn't enough to warrant you a soulless machine. I take comfort in the idea that the concept of the soul is much more complex, particularly from a scientific point of view, than people make it out to be.

I hope you do not find my comment intrusive in any way, I much appreciate that you're able to share this with all of us. I am simply offering my thoughts on the matter.

I know what you mean.

I just... do.

the simplicity of the picture is enough to reflect the message behind. well done Morca

Regardless on whether or not people understand what the true nature of this piece is (which you explained regardless), everyone can get a little something out of it. I for one seem to lay in the center of this strange line we draw between 'human' and 'machine'. I sense emotion in others quite well, but don't experience it personally nearly as often as I should. I'm also a logical thinker, my morality is stretched because of the extent of it... However, it's not so bad as to making me an 'evil' individual, if that makes sense.

Regardless, thank you for sharing this beautiful piece with us. You did an awesome job.

I find it embarrassing almost as if getting up on stage in front of a group of people to type this. So many self judgmental thoughts and fears, worries, concerns. Mostly, will you even care what I have to say, or worse yet will you be aggravated with me?

Because of being raised an only child, I am definitely ego-centric, even ego-maniacal. It's so hard still to even CONSIDER the feelings of other people, I behave as if I can do anything I want without this conscience telling me that action might upset someone, or get this person angry. I've learned a bit of it over the 54 years I've been alive (birthday was on the 3rd this month), so I have certain mannerisms meant to apply certain strategies for success, but not necessarily for the right reasons.

"It's easier to catch flies with honey than vinegar" is one example. Being sweet - polite, nice, smiling, positive, cheerful, personable can get you better service at restaurants and shopping centers and most places where you rely on service personnel to take care of you. The GOOD reason to do this is another moral lesson: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." But the REAL reason I do this is it gets me what I want better, faster, quicker, costs nothing but a little pretense - and although I loathe pretense, the whole human world is filled with little lies we tell each other constantly, just different shades of grey, different withheld facts.

Because I led a fairly isolated life, I didn't become socialized and therefore have an atrophied sense of empathy. I can cry at a movie, so I do have an emotional response to things. But generally, I seldom even tune in to what a person is saying, even find it difficult to establish eye contact. But that was a bit of self esteem and fear issue that I'm getting over, and now I can get the eye contact and still tune out and be bored.

I think our minds become jaded, judgmental, quick to dismiss and categorize people and their problems, things they tell us, and like Dr House, unless they challenge us personally, we aren't interested in them and wave them away with a sweep of our proverbial cane.

This is where a LOT of us are faulty. Everybody's big problem is huge to them because of point of view. It is always your challenge to try and get off your POV and attempt to see somebody else's, "Walk a mile in somebody else's shoes" so to speak, that makes a person truly empathic and more worldly and well-rounded.

This is not a fault in you personally, but in me, and most all the Human Race. We've developed this "every person for themselves" competitive attitude, which is drilled into us by society, capitalism, advertising, schools, corporations... it's terrific but not for society as a whole. We need to be a social society, for the Human organism dies when divided into nothing but individuals, just as the cells of our bodies die when taken away from their host.

So, if you can create dragons with your mind, can you handle the challenge of re-creating yourself as the person you're talking with? Or think of them as a dragon you want to be friends with, something that makes them more interesting than they are if that's easier

Huh...interesting. And leaving me at a total loss for words on the topic.

As for the picture, the massive whitespace works very well with it, as does the simple black/white scheme. It's odd...doesn't make me sad, but makes me think.

Beautifully artistic. I understand.