The special effects for the grandpa are weird.
I find it hard to believe anyone but an extreme fundamentalist would believe that an upload doesn't have a soul after talking to one. People would think that uploading is impossible because of the lack of a soul. Show them that uploading is possible, and they'll believe the guy has a soul. Split the upload a few times and they'll probably believe the soul goes back in time to fill all the bodies, or just fills them all at once, or something like that.
Of course, there will still probably be plenty against the idea of uploading. After all, what's the point of heaven if you never die?
Also, why can't he hug her? Can he not afford to rent an android body?
Anyway, it was a good video.
Thanks.
Didn't there used to be plenty of people who said blacks people don't have souls, for instance? The whole concept is so nebulous as to be practically meaningless.
One of the later scripts talks about him inventing that android-body type machine, or at least helping develop it.
I made a video last month, which when I mentioned in another thread someone said I should post as a top level discussion.
It's just a ten minute zero-budget thing I wrote in which a girl has a video conference with her dead and backed-up-then-uploaded grandfather. Intended as the first in a series, but later episodes will only get produced if donations come. Later episodes talk more about AI's failures and the political situation with unrest from the living demanding the dead shouldn't have their jobs etc.
Anyway, watch it here if you like, I'd be happy to hear what y'all think :)