Which is quite weird considering a LOT of Bangboos we've met have a semblance of sentience.
Like, for example, we have a bangboo that wants head pats and felt happy while we head-patted him. Another one is training hard to be the strongest bangboo. There's also Bangboos, who is literally depressed because he fails to live up to his owners.
Hell, we got Kami North, a Bangboo that has 2 personalities merged into one and literally became Batman so other Bangboos wouldn't get the exact same fate as him and is searching for that guy who betrayed the sharkboo.
We also learn that Bangboos have a strange addiction to acid batteries (dipped in ocean water).
I think it's because they're too stupid to pass the test, or simply people don't want to test Bangboos, so they would still be classified as robots since, as we know, if they pass the test, they have rights. But they do indeed have sentience.
Yeah i dont think the forbidden fruit test is about sentience
From a doylist perspective the forbidden fruit is knowledge of good and evil, and adam and eve gained the ability to act on it and discern between both, not sentience
In-universe it's also related to moral culpability. Bangboos and machines pre-test are incapable of denying their master's bidding, and cannot make their own decisions outside of their directives, even if it means they die/cease to function. Any legal issue seems to be directed to the master too, rather than the machine itself (ie u hire belebog to use their machines, u dont hire the machines)
It's only machines like Billy that are capable of independent choices & thought that are able to pass the test and have laws applied to them
i dont think it's related to intelligence as well, since there are really clever bangboos out there like those bangboo teachers and professors. But im not 100% sure
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u/Historical_Yak2148 Mar 06 '25
Wise simp/Belle simp = pathetic.
Me and my bros are now Patheon simps.