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Lol hey Tychus looked like he was having fun so I decided to come crashing in that's all.

 

Don't worry. That's all dead and gone. They've abandoned logic and the original purpose anyways

 

I got a question, If Baneling roll all over the battlefield, it would get explode. My guess is if rolling the chemical getting unstable because of the movement of the unit and it will explode. You know, "handle with care" type of things

 

hey! good view ! It's like a dynamite. We should be careful. Probably the baneling decided to blow itself up. So that means the baneling has a counciousness. Is it possible ? Has Blizzard thought about this question ?
Now I just started another debate No answer needed.

 

Most modern explosives require a special trigger to be detonated.

Take dynamite: it is not true that you can just trigger it with a jolt- it requires the extreme jarring caused by a blast cap to make it go off. It could just as easily be the case with Banelings.

 

SOGE, you think the Baneling need a conciousness to blow up? Does a Hydralisk need one in order to shoot a spine?
Blowing up is just another action.

 

Yes but dynamite has a fuse. And a baneling has a fuse of sorts too. it has the chemicals stored inside its self for the explosion. As pretty much inert chemicals for the most part. But only when it wants to be the suicide bomber does it open a valve inside it's body to allow the chemicals mix and create the chemical reaction that eventually (in a few seconds) goes boom.

This says the baneling has a consciousness. I could be like a bee though. It senses danger with it's senses and automatically goes into self destruct mode and opens the valve up inside it's body. More like an automatic reaction like a proximity mine rather then a conscious choice.

 

Speaking of the baneling exploding. There is a beetle out there that who two chambers inside it. Separately these chambers are harmless, but when the beetle sprays them together it creates a very strong acid. So yeah a baneling can have some chemicals inside it, but separate those chemicals won't do anything. But, like the beetle, combine them and you have an explosive.

 

For those of you using the word, are you using consciousness to imply only a basic level of awareness such as in any animal (that's awake at least), or the more philosophical use where it describes a human level of self-awareness? I suspect some people are using the word with different meanings behind it.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness

 

All that does is affirm it has more than one possible meaning.

 

Seriously guys, all zerg units share a consciousness... Each brood is either controlled be a cerebrate, the overmind or kerrigan.

*Overmind says to baneling "mix yer chemicals and blow up now plz!"

Each unit doesn't however, have it's own consciousness. Because their mind is connected to that of the cerebrates. Thus sharing a consciousness...

 

I wouldn't say that the Zerg units and Cerebrates 'share' a consciousness. While it's obviously a collective will, it's the Cerebrate that's conscious. A 'shared' consciousness implies a mutual agreement, where the Zergling, or whatever, would have his fair say in the decision making, and if he did, I'd be concerned as to why it mindlessly agreed to run full-pelt into an array of explosions and machine gun fire.

In my opinion, the relationship between a Cerebrate and a Zerg creature is similar to the relationship between us and our legs. We can get them to do whatever we want, provided they're physically able to do it, and do not offer any proposing viewpoints. The legs, themselves, aren't really 'conscious', but they do make up a large portion of ourselves, which are, though why people would want to know if our legs are conscious is beyond me.

 

Each zerg unit has to have some sort of conscious. Like in Starcraft when a cerebrate died, if the cerebrate was the conscious then once he was dead his units should become mindless. Instead they become wild animals attacking every thing. Even in the dark templar saga the protoss talk about how the zerg on auir do whatever they want while it seems that no one is controlling them

 

Watch the BR2 from 11:00 and on. Monitor the rogue Roach's hp regeneration seen in the UI. It seems to heal twice as fast while burrowed. Even the commentating hints at that.

I haven't seen anyone mention this before.

 

Its obvious....

 

It's obvious to me that the Nighthawk is a detector, yet some lazy douche asked that on b.net forums instead of looking it up or simply using his common sense. And Cydra answered him. Waste of a blue post.

Some obvious things might have gone unnoticed by others, that's all.

 

yup, thats definitely how the world works. Ive read that too and that one was a no brainer, they couldve answered some more relevant questions like maybe giving a question ''why doesnt the nighthawk cloak?'' lol

 

or..."does the roach heal faster when its burrowed?"

 

Does anyone know if Terran will be the only playable race in the MP for the first product? Also, how does the trilogy work?