But if you have a program, why should a program "like" anything. There is just no reason, no necessity. It has been created for a purpose and, considered its selfawareness, adds the survival instinct to this purpose. Why should it bother with adding stuff like "empathy" etc.? What for? What would be the gain?
First, emotions motivate sentient beings. An emotionless individual has no drive to do anything. If an AI is capable of being fond of people it's supposed to protect, it can be far more effective in this goal than an AI that just coldly follows misson parameters. Emotions are an important aspect of intuition and decision-making skills, and a good AI needs both to fulfill its functions. And if you want to make a sapient AI to work with humans, you damn well need to make it capable of empathy, unless you deliberately want to invoke bad sci-fi clichés.
And on what do you base your claim that they have a concept for right or wrong? I mean in an ethical way? I think Legion even explains that they don't have that on his loyalty mission.
You failed to listen. Legion explains that the Heretics don't share your pity, remorse or fear - a Terminator shout-out, by the way. Not only does Legion speak about the Heretics, rather than the geth as a whole, but it also refers to a series of specific emotions. Lacking certain emotions does not equal being entirely emotionless, and Legion demonstrates several emotional responses during its stay on the Normandy.
But you were talking about ethics, something that Legion does not refer to in that scene. Don't you remember what Legion says about the geth motivations in general? It effectively explains the geth framework of thought towards other races as that everyone has the right to define their own course in life so far as they do not adversely affect others. This is an ethical guideline. It's rudimentary and straightforward, which is why I believe it's origin is the geth themselves, rather than quarian moral philosophers. It's also notable in that it encourages isolationism as opposed to cooperation, as it involves fear of assuming harmful aspects from other cultures, as opposed to desire to learn good aspects from them - undoubtedly the result of their traumatic awakening to self-consciousness. But whether or not you fully agree with it, it is a moral guideline.
People argued about why AIs would use such a signal. In hindsight, it
makes a lot more sense if we believe that those geth were not under
Saren's control and were in fact up to something that was not a
precursor to invasion.
No. They were a listening post. If you pay attention, Legion talks about those. They observe the organic civilizations from the fringes of their space. And the fact that they chose that music as their signal indicates emotional attachment to it. It's not a coincidence that they chose a song of that particular style and content, to be sure.
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