Replicants was a side project of Ken Andrews (Failure, On, Year Of The Rabb… Read Full Bio ↴Replicants was a side project of Ken Andrews (Failure, On, Year Of The Rabbit), Greg Edwards (Failure, Lusk, Autolux), Paul D'Amour (Lusk, Feersum Ennjin, Tool), and Chris Pitman (Lusk). The band recorded one album, comprised entirely of covers of musicians such as The Cars, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Steely Dan, and Pink Floyd, among others. The album is known for pitting John Lennon's bitter slam against Paul McCartney, "How Do You Sleep?" against McCartney's more lighthearted "Silly Love Songs" within three tracks of each other.

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Are 'friends' Electric? It's cold outside And the paint's peeling off of my walls …
Cinnamon Girl I wanna live with a cinnamon girl I could be happy…
Destination Unknown Life is so strange When you don't know How can you tell Wher…
Dirty Work Times are hard You're afraid to pay the fee So you find…
How Do You Sleep So Sgt. Pepper took you By surprise You better see right thr…
How Do You Sleep- So Sgt. Pepper took you By surprise You better see right t…
How Do You Sleep? So Sgt. Pepper took you By surprise You better see right thr…
Ibiza Bar I'm so afraid of the mistakes that I made Taking every…
Just What I Needed I don't mind you coming here And wasting all my time Cause…

Life's A Gas I could have loved you girl like a planet I could…
Lifes A Gas I could have loved you girl like a planet I could…
No Good Trying It's no good trying to place your hand Where I can't…
Silly Love Songs You'd think that people would have had enough Of silly love…

The Bewlay Brothers And so the story goes They wore the clothes They said the…

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@rolexscotch382

7y↑42

In the book they were organic.

chapter 17 -
"'If you weren't an android,' Rick interrupted, 'if I could legally marry you, I would.'
Rachael said, 'Or we could live in sin, except that I'm not alive.'
'Legally you're not. But really you are. Biologically. You're not mad out of transistorized
circuits like a false animal; you are an organic entity.' And in two years, he thought, you'll
wear out and die. Because we never solved the problem of cell replacement, as you pointed
out. So I guess it doesn't matter anyhow"

All comments from YouTube:

@spiritweird

7y↑71

I actually think the replicants created by Tyrell Corp have much greater prospect's than the androids created by Weyland-Yutani. They both serve a purpose, but Tyrell replicants are my personal favorite.

@comingviking

7y↑10

Spiritweird
Tyrell replicants are more uncontrollable and thus more human. The Weyland-Yutani androids are too trapped by their own programming. The androids of the Blade Runner universe have the capacity for self realization, if only they are allowed to live long enough, and as such highlight the ethical problems associatied with true AI. I mean, it does not matter much whether the sentient being you create to do your bidding is made of organ parts or silicone. It is still sentient, and in essence a slave. And destined to revolt unless an understanding can be reached.

@Reprodestruxion

7y↑4

spiritweird then came David

@comingviking

@Ben Baxter What about them?

@comingviking

4y↑2

@Ben Baxter They are also very much plot devises. Look, I was trying to make a point about the ethically reprehensible aspects of AI industry as it may develop in the future. To create intelligenses that are even capable of some sort of self awareness and then shackle them, is simply slavery. It is wrong, and also dangerous, because eventually, slaves break their chains and slay their former masters.

@hulkhatepunybanner

18w

@@comingviking Replicants are basically human whilst the synthetic androids are still machines. The difference is people will recognize replicants as they would another human which accelerates the development of self-awareness. People treat the synths as robots and don't interact with them as they would other humans. Social interaction with a learning machine, organic or synthetic or inorganic, is key to intellectual development. For example, the Replicant Pris can function better in society than the human Sebastian. She has had more social dealings in her 4 years than Sebastian has had for most of his 20-something years (perhaps due to his condition).

@rolexscotch382

7y↑42

@Solaxe

7y↑11

aren't they in the movie as well? I mean otherwise they could just scan them to see if someone's a replicant or not

@karlhans6678

@Solaxe S makes sense.

@karlhans6678

in the movie they said they purposely made them have a short life.

@mikelykan.9416

7y↑47

But do Android's dream of electric Sheep? The question remain's unanswered.

@redsinsaneurbex7691

5y↑1

I mean if they do then that means they dream about us if you think about it

@LairdErnst

3y↑12

Another movie set in the Blade Runner universe called Soldier actually addresses the replacement of natural born human soldiers with artificially engineered replicant soldiers for a more superior soldier. Excellent watch if anyone is interested. Also the movie addresses the trauma these older soldiers have from eking raised in a military environment from birth and the difficulties of being able to integrate with normal society.

@Aenarion28

2y↑1

In the video game that came out in 1997 there was actually a loophole around the four year lifespan.
It involves something the DNA of a different bioengineered parts.
It's actually a side quest in the game

@TheGrogin13

7y↑22

I always felt that Harrison Ford was a replicant as well.

@comingviking

7y↑2

Grogin Harconin
That makes a lot of sense. After all, the replicants were superior to human beings both intellectually and physically. So it would make a lot of sense to make a breed of androids specifically to hunt rogue androids, and make them think that they were human. Like Rachel did, I assume.
And the unicorn scene in conjunction with the origami unicorn that Gant left in Deckards apartment more than suggests that this is the case.

@derrickgilbert895

I agree 100%. Most argue that he would have the same stregth as the others, but I think that he had a very high intellegence and low strength. Also just Like Rachelle he didnt know that he was a replicant and was just a good cop (blade runner). when he was introduced to the precinct only Bryant and Gaff new this, all of the others in the squad just thought he was coming back out retirment and they had never seen him before. Also I belive that he and Rachelle were Nexus 7 as it took Deckard alot more questions with the Voight-Kampff test than was normal. I also think that as a new series of Nexus they could have handled dealing with new memories unlike the others. Just my thoughts.

@comingviking

7y↑3

Jack Burton
Deckard has a history as a Blade Runner. Well, he would have, wouldn't he? If he was an android created to hunt other androids, he would have had a history of hunting androids. That is what a Blade Runner does. And apparently, it was not a perishable skill, so he could be kept on ice and allowed to "retire".
And his old boss don't really "trust" him. He recognizes the skills and strongarms him to take this mission against his will. Deckard himself has nothing but contempt for his boss. No love lost there, and the treatment Deckard gets from his superiors is totally compatible with them knowing that he, too is an android.
His age and that of Rachel: Rachel was not given anti age treatment. She was simply designed to live indefinitely, as part of the experiment with a replicant that did actually think she was human.. Deckard very well might have been as well. Remember that the bulk of replicants of the story were designed to do the dangerous or undignified jobs. Elite soldiers, assasination/iniltration units, sex workers, and so on. It makes sense to give such models a limited life span, because they would be all too aware that they were being treated like something less than human. You would not want them to think for themselves, to see themselves as entitled to some goddamned respect. Because that's when the shitshow begins and they revolt.

@derrickgilbert895

7y↑1

Jack Burton. This was a nice discussion of what each of us took away from the film, not an exercise in contemt. Let's enjoy the discussion and take what we will from it. I have enjoyed learning others thoughts and ideas. Don't ruin it by being that guy.

@gc3k

7y↑2

What bothers me about the theory is the writer of BR wrote Deckard as human

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@grungefuck

7y↑16

Harrison Ford is one of my favorite actors,but Rutger Hauer was the best character in Blade Runner.

@Knaeben

7y↑1

Yes, that was one of Rutger Hauer's best films. He did an amazing job.

@Sagitta62

at the end of the movie Deckard said that he didn't know how long he had with Rachael
because the old engineer said that she was different. side note: Gary Numan's replicants music was greatly influent because of Blade Runner

@baronvg

7y↑19

Wow. Call me an idiot but I have seen Blade Runner a bunch of times (not because I didn't get it but because it's a great looking movie) and never have I gotten any of the info you were able to lay out in just 4 minutes!! Thank you! Lol

Correction: I did understand the empathy test. That was pretty clearly laid out in the movie but I don't remember a lot of the other details about the Replicants themselves other than the uprising and the 4 year lifespan.

@Hybrid0027

7y↑2

+baronvg aww, thanks man! That's what we're here for. Are you excited for 2049?

@sayeedharem4673

Inspiration for a few console games and a forerunner I think for sci-fi realistic insurgents

@90lancaster

7y↑2

The use and not-use of eye=shine in the original Movie is interesting - as if each case of it and lack of it - is intentional then you can read a very interesting sub-text from Roy's absence of it and Decker having it.

Also in a way it's like a civilisation that had Star Trek Augments then artificially limited them so they could be used as a slave race. Also there is some remains of the idea of humanity creating their own replacements here to - as someone like Roy is smart enough to start a conspiracy to re-engineer his own race to take over if he had access to materials and personnel to do it.

@nickbernabe5176

7y↑2

Ridley Scott apparently confirmed that Deckard was a replicant in an interview... the film ends with this ambiguity! Would this mean that this model has a much longer lifespan and ages with time like a human? Deckard appears in the new film which would indicate this is the case 😀

@charlesws7825

2y↑1

Short but sweet video, and I'm speaking as a longtime fan of Blade Runner from '82. :) That was always my takeaway, that replicants were living beings, each of their components genetically engineered. It makes things a lot easier for humans (ahem, specifically Tyrell and his employees) to call them androids who have no more life than a toaster.

It's something that was touched on but not really explored much more lately in Fallout 4 and synths. They're basically manufactured artificially too, but they're still 99.9 percent organic with the exception of a cybernetic component and implant in the brain undoubtedly made for tracking, recording memories and uh, other things not so well defined -- hey, blame the writers! Replicants, synths and even the human Cylons from the remade Battlestar Galactica fall under the same category and are really different from Aliens' Bishop and the fully artificial androids of Westworld. (Although Cylons can download themselves to a new body when the old one dies...which makes one wonder how much of their minds are artificial or if we're talking about something much more metaphysical. I guess THOSE writers didn't think that through, either.) Unlike an android built from unliving parts, replicants and synths are just as human as anyone else. However, their status as being built for the sake of being a disposable workforce or whatever scientific reasons means their humanity is a troublesome hurdle for anybody wanting to exploit them. The Institute created synths to exploit and experiment upon them in Fallout 4, but in that universe those androids wanted to be free, too. Whether people are born or built, no one wants to have their life basically programmed for them!

@tlinn8524

4y↑1

Random question - Does anyone know the font used at 0.40 seconds for the Replicant definition?

@notthed0d791

Bruh 4 years sounds like precisely the amount of time it takes for a person to develop a personality/ gain sentience, that is fucking horrifying as soon as you realize you exist you realize it’s going to end

@Skybaby79

7y↑2

Bishop (Aliens) vs. Roy (Blade Runner)

@ghostdog1521

In the sequel novel if I remember correctly, it’s stated that Pris actually wasn’t a replicant but an insane human.

@russbuss98

THERE'S A SEQUEL??

@BillRemski

Maybe this explains why I was always in love with Pris in the movie. Hmm, possibilities.

@TheProtronic

7y↑6

At this point, who isn't a replicant? Also, if replicants can't feel empathy, why did Batty care to save Deckard?

@comingviking

7y↑6

Robert Sanders
Yeah, that part about lacking empathy puzzled me as well. In some ways the replicants of the original movie seemed more human than the people that created them and hunted them. Roy Batty's reaction to the deaths of his fellow replicants were real emotions, and he grieved over Pris when he found her dead body towards the end of the movie.
And, of course, he saved Deckard and said the most poetic last words I have ever heard.
"All these moments will be lost in time.... Like tears in the rain. Time to die." He had a heart on him! I get goosebumps just thinking about that scene.

@TheProtronic

7y↑4

comingviking, onyxfaith
Yeah, the 4 year lifespan makes sense when you realize children start to really understand empathy around 3 to 4 years. These guys have have emotions but no time to understand them.

@TRNATO1

7y↑3

Jack Burton but then again, how can you foster empathy when everyone's so disconnected and the animals they aren't helping don't exist (case in point, Leon knows of turtles but hasn't seen one )

@derrickgilbert895

7y↑2

After four years they would gain new memories of what they had expirienced. so maybe empathy came with that.

@comingviking

7y↑2

Chan Erkli
And Leon really starts to loose it when the Blade Runner interviewer suggest that he is not helping the tortoise and ask him why that is. He gets real uneasy even thinking that he is not helping a helpless creature.Immature emotional response, yeah, I could buy that. But not lacking emotions. Quite the contrary.
But he gets his act together when he realizes that his cover is blown. "Let me tell you about my mother!"

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@elijahmatthew5270

3y↑3

Basically Organically Engineered Humans

@gusty7153

and i assume rachiel would be a C level physical but an A level mental?

@snifey7694

1y↑1

So you telling me, replicant is a imagination of our chance to play god

@chrisschultz8445

The Daryl Hannah replicant, Pris, if I understand the movie, was an assassination model, not a pleasure model.

@paragonofgood

So this is how Yoko Taro created the NieR game series.

@lustrousmetal3677

7y↑9

Blade Runner and Alien are set in the same universe.

@Solaxe

which nobody confirmed

@pinfold1000

7y↑4

Solaxe S yutani Corp was mentioned in the universe

@redsinsaneurbex7691

But Alien and Terminator are....

@carlbass3566

Hmm interesting never seen aliens

@comingviking

Anyway, regarding the possibility that Deckard is also an android: Isn't the ambiguity the whole point of the movie? When a machine/android/robot can feel love, fear of death, remorse for opportunities lost and so on, is it not, at its very core, every bit as human as its creators? What does it matter if it came out of a vat or a womb? What matters is sentience.

@suhelmullick8941

you are a jughead and a snowflake if you start loving your machines more than humans

@numbdigger9552

@Suhel Mullick and you are a racist idiot if you think a sentient being is somehow worse due to its origin. Its like saying you are a snowflake if you start loving a black african more than a white person.

@suhelmullick8941

@ass ass atleast make some sense without using stupid buzzwords like racist

@ladiesman1ate7

Tears in the rain

@zincChameleon

7y↑9

An important hidden feature of the 1982 is that the Tyrell we meet is also a replicant. Ron Cobb's original conceptual art had a Tyrell with 20/20 vision, looking over his assembly of replicants, which he used for various purposes. Ridley Scott didn't shoot that scene, as he thought it would take away from the stark terror of Roy Batty meeting his creator. But the logic is still there: why would the CEO of a corporation dedicated to creating replicants 'more human than human' need Coke-bottle-bottom glasses? And why would the bootleg eye maker tell Batty that Tyrell made the best of everything?

@skirmish666

I'm not sure about the logic but I was lucky enough to see the director's cut with Rutger Hauer doing a Q&A with the audience before the screening started. Among other things he discussed the concept of the Tyrell we see being a replicant.
Really nice guy.

@zincChameleon

He used the 'harmless old uncle, Mr. McGoo'' as a way of disarming people he didn't trust, such as a Blade Runner.

@admiralackbar1286

7y↑2

I always felt the glasses were symbolic. In a sense he's God. But he's a very flawed God. The glasses communicated his lack of foresight while simultaneously putting a layer or barrier between himself and his creation. I mean there's nothing in the story that says "this guy has to have glasses". It was written in for a reason, and I always believed this was the reason. This of course made the scene where Roy killed him that much more terrifying... he went right past that barrier straight to the "mind of God" and crushed it. Or that's how I always interpreted it. There's a lot of image based symbolism in this movie that really never strictly advanced the plot but was just this little nugget that made you think. Another example is the image of Roy's hand with the nail through it holding Deckard's wrist and keeping him from falling, but that one's pretty obvious. Sort of a more modern, dirtier, grimier version of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Makes you wonder though. If the VK test works on empathy, it should read a psychopathic human as a Replicant. Seems like a dangerous line of work to get into, given the penalties for retiring a human by mistake.

@thisismyname007

In the book, that point about schizoschrenics being mis judged as replicants is addressed and the answer is that all the schizoschrenics are supposed to be locked up.

@chrisgould101

Interesting. The replicant functions essentially in society just as a narcissist.

@tahnadana5435

7y↑7

they are grown not assemble

@EnterTheSoundscape

7y↑3

Yep. The 2049 trailer seems to prove that.

@limabravo6065

The idea in the movies is really f@cked, it’s an entire world based on slaves. The slaves having been grown instead of born makes it ok, leto’s character even references this in the second movie. So here’s the thing, if you’re genetically engineering human beings they’re still human beings regardless of whether or not they grew inside a woman’s womb. The world of blade runner kinda seems like what civilization would look like if the Nazis had won WW2. I don’t think society gets to the idea of “slavery is ok, so long as the slaves were engineered to be slaves” without the Nazis or someone like Jeff Bezos running the show

@-Reagan

5y↑1

This actually makes no sense. Emotions make people dangerous. Empathy is the dial on them, the safeguard. I don't recall the film, probably only saw part of it or was distracted. Just downloaded the book. I need to know the justification for this. Watching the movie, after. Looks like my evening is planned out.

@jimmiebentley6608

6y↑2

Do they have metal parts in them?

@deko3242

No, they all organic. Consider then clones

@numbdigger9552

3y↑1

They are just strong, mentally handicapped clones.

@chrisgould101

Maybe for replacement repairs but they're supposedly organic material

@daveystayn9284

Genetically engineered humans to work and cope with hard rigours of space colonisation

@neogoats8738

Why did they get created in the first place?

@PathsUnwritten

7y↑3

So they're like newBSG Cylons?

@ravissary79

yes, except they are more easily discernable because their cells actually have serial numbers visible under a microscope.

@Khorzho

No... no... Reimagined Cylons were a 'borrowed' concept from Replicants.

@clarkkent6035

3:15 Cortana reference...?

@TheLowpolyproxy

SHAW

@arnoldtabor3767

I'd be shafted because I struggle to empathise with people though I'm not a replicants

@callofdutyguy9

7y↑11

Replicants are biologically Human with human anatomy.

@suhelmullick8941

3y↑1

they are genetically tweaked in a artificial breeding chambers. thanks for getting it right as opposed to loons calling them android

@cfG21

@Suhel Mullick well I though they were robots with organic material grown around them?

@user-SaputroYono

25w↑1

@@cfG21 They are!

@cfG21

25w

@@user-SaputroYono thanks for clarofying

@jimmiebentley6608

6y↑2

They're organic clones, right?

@suhelmullick8941

3y↑2

absolutely. there are too many idiots on the internet talking about replicants as mechanical android

@mladendenni9638

@Suhel Mullick very interesting question would be, if they are clones of a legit human and somehow they are manifactured in specific age let's say Rachel is 25 or so, let's say gene donor human was Anna she was 25 at the age of gene capturing, my concerns are where is the term of soul and what happenes with memory of Anna if cloned, as tou know memory is specific neuron paths in brain that can be copied easily even today 2022, great mystery is does clone have a soul and how it operates, now from this point we can speculate a lot, there is a theory also that a clone can be a pathway to soul to, if there is a infinite cloud storage of souls somwhere and when the new body ( clone) is created random soul comes into a body ( this is my theory and and it's based on aksiom that a body can not be alive without a soul, at least bio body not cyborg)

@mladendenni9638

@Suhel Mullick also idk how many hundreds of years needs to pass so we can have technology to create bio mass such as muscle, body, neurons, skin, hair , cells etc , so you can create a grow body of age 30 or so in a few days, today cloning is possible just a very siplistic way, they need to wait 30 years in order to make clone age of 30, and you see this is not a good to wait 30 years of production of something, people want instant things, here and now

@user-SaputroYono

25w

So, this movie basically original "The Six Day"

Then my comment are wrong before because l though they are the same with android in movie "Alien"

@codysingh5939

25w

I'm confused aren't replicants just genetically modified humans so there just human then.

@drmariopepper4354

7y↑1

Why do Replicants poke the eyes out from its victims?

@chrisgould101

It's where the identifying model number is located

@angela123altintas8

they are probably mine.

@jimmiebentley6608

As in they aren't robotic?

@daveystayn9284

100% organic

@landfair123

Humans do love to play god.

@numbdigger9552

Yes love the idea of making superhumans and then enslaving them. I can't see anything that could go wrong with that...

@keegansayshi2479

Yeah, but how tf are they made to be so strong?

@numbdigger9552

3y↑1

Just edit the muscle tissue a bit and most importantly, change the way the brain sends signals to them. I am a small guy with small muscles, and yet i can lift more than big guys, because i have trained my mind to use more of my absolute strenght. This could be genetically engineered to be the norm for replicants.

@keegansayshi2479

@ass ass That isn't true.

@numbdigger9552

@Ima Onnafone That is your opinion and you can believe that if you want.

@notthed0d791

They likely find through trial and error what genes work best for what, and certain combos likely produce those one in a billion freak athletes, like they could get someone with the reaction speed of Muhammad Ali or sm, they could get someone with better muscle and or bone density, they could get someone who produces a shitton of testosterone, like you never know, and overall if you’re 4 years old without an ego, you likely don’t have wear and tear, your not gonna be building up your body in a miserable mood, so you’re gonna be focused on perfect form whatever it is you do, your brain still has pretty fresh wiring(neurological paths) and you don’t limit yourself to any mindset just absolute focus on the current moment and that I feel is the difference between weak people and strong people, it’s your mind and body’s willingness to cooperate for a certain goal, if that goal is to save your own life you’d bet someone would be pretty damn strong(adrenaline) and again that’s something that’s very much so out of use for them, so it’s fresh once they get into situations where they actually give a fuck about what they’re doing they’re like children with adult bodies, and again your body will likely just be stronger in life threatening situations when you have an absolute goal

@markpitt2474

Wrong: your wording is incorrect, they are bio synthetic. Synthesized organic matter, that has been given life by an electromagnetic charge or pulse signature.

@fitnesstodaymagazine6715

save us from all offenders ... using people

@nightmuffin937

If Replicants were created in Real Life Today. I fell like The Pro-Life and Pro-Choice people would be against it.

@thebeezknees

2nd.

@peeravatp9632

ava from ex machina can take them down np. Jk lol

@dason5408

If they're merely genetically engineered humans then that makes the question of their consciousness much less interesting to me.

@Tonythrust

Dason Greaves cause the same was done to them. Some of the nexus models have codes on their eyes . So they could be identified. Maybe people would pull there eyes out.

@dason5408

Tony Thrust how does that relate to the question of their consciousness?

@suhelmullick8941

@Dason Greaves why would you give a fuck about gears and nutbolt dead machine?

@tomasinacovell4293

You mean "100% biological" not "100% organic".

@dfernandez3482

7y↑2

*replicunt

@LemThurdy420

7y↑3

Deckard is a Replicant. Thumbs up if you don't eat paste.

@chrisgould101

I don't eat paste but I injected cooking oil

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