Loop Detector

Loop detector.
Importance to know when loops are occurring. Tortoise and hare
program, with the Hybrids understand.
Chapter title: Peace & Violence, or War Heros
Notes from new caprica. The “war heros” have convinced the majority of
the other models that it was an error to kill humans, and then go so
far as to “occupy” new caprica in an attempt to learn to live
together. But they take a heavy handed approach ‘knowing’ that they
are superior and that the humans are not going to welcome them given
their inability to forgive and just start anew. But they become
increasingly conflicted as the human insurgents fight them every step
of the way, the children who want to live in peace with the humans
lose votes as it becomes harder to think of ways to respond to
violence other than violence — they have not had a MLK or Ghandi.
Chapter title: Visions from the God, of Nuking New Caprica
Three has a vision of finding a baby at the oracle. The vision
confuses her and she goes to the oracle for clarification — the
oracles knows that Hara is alive. How? Maybe certain people and indeed
certain children of the final five are sensitive to the content of
previous loops, these visions they have are often attributed to God or
the gods. The base star hybrids see the content of previous loops as
well, and perhaps better than anyone, but are so far “gone” albeit
because of it, they are unable to communicate in terms others can
understand.
So the previous loop, based on three’s vision involved her finding
Hara on the ground, rather than Baltar. Both scenarios involved dead
people laying all around. Both also involved Hara being turned over to
the children of the final five. One option that was put on the table
was nuking the settlement, maybe that happened in a previous loop.
Chapter title: Leoben’s Dad
Another dynamic to New Caprica was Leoben and Thrace, his being
adamant that he had seen visions from God that they are in love with
one another. It might have been that part of his programming came from
Tye’s dad. He tells Thrace that they have children, that he’s seen it,
but how much has he really seen? Leoben is entirely synthetic,
constructed by Tye using unused parts of himself, parts of his dad in
fact that had been saved in the off chance that his dad would agree to
resurrection. But his dad had sworn off resurrection, and stuck to it
as his wife, the second coming of Pythia, had requested. He loved her
and had a child with her. Who was this child? Tye says he himself and
his wife were never human, just synthetic copies, machines, but who
wanted to be more and strived to be the men and women they dreamed of
becoming. As machines they were cloned from their parents, but unlike
resurrection, had the previous memories of their parent deactivated,
so as to have their own unique experience. But when building their own
children, they reactivate some of those memories so that the synthetic
models can “feel” memories, a history of growing up for instance
without having had a childhood. Hence Leoben has vivid “memories” of
being with Kara.
Beacon contamination episode. If the 13th colony was “cylon”, they had
an immunity too. Was the immunity lost over time, or just couldn’t be
passed along to the seven models of synthetic children. Leoben, black
guy, Cavil, Six, three, Sharon, gay suit.
Chapter title: Toasters, Alarm Clocks, & Microwave Ovens.
The difference in how long a minute lasts on a snooze button, versus a
microwave oven, is a subtly of human experience, and one in which
machines begin to recognize as soon as they begin to experience love
and pleasure.