The Return of the Repressed: Cybersubjectivity in ROBOCOP
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film ROBOCOP presents us with a question about the possibility of an individual subject's psyche surviving in the form of a cyborg. The ostensible answer is "yes", but the cyborg's (Robocop) process of rediscovering of his/its previous psyche (Murphy, the human cop) reflexively interrogates the initial question in a manner that problematizes the legitimacy of an inherently human-organic psyche. The question is not the obvious one-can or will the human spirit survive the onslaught of techno-capitalism?-but a much more fundamental one: is subjectivity an inherently human phenomenon, or might it be somehow "ported" to non-organic forms of being? Pursuing the question produces a problem: if subjectivity is merely an epiphenomenal trace-a symptom, as it were-that emerges from the interaction between being and environment then does it not logically follow that it may be differentially constituted in different, perhaps nonorganic forms of being?
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it