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I love this idea because it forces attention to how alien Mb’s thoughts are in comparison to humans.’ It’s not just looking at all these things - it’s paying attention to all of them. And the amount of attention it considers inadequate for crisis situations is more attention than we pay with our single-track thinking.

In that context its ability to render itself in human terms is all the more impressive. It contextualizes the allusions it makes to forgetting that humans live in a mental world fundamentally different from its own. Its seemingly extreme stress in the face of human interaction is clearer. Yes, it’s undersocialized, and yes has a long experience of punishment for showing interest in socializing but it also finds human interactions unintuitive much of the time bc it literally cannot relate. It just has to remember that humans have hormones and partial memories and physical distress with consequences it just doesn’t have, all affecting our behavior. No wonder it resents its organic parts for dipping it into the shallow end of meat chaos.

Murderbot tv show where we see from Murderbot's perspective. Not just its eyes, but its actual perspective.

So of course at least 10% of the screen is playing Sanctuary Moon, half is actual eyesight, and the rest is various cameras and feeds shifting and swapping in importance.

You know shit's serious when the Sanctuary Moon view vanishes, and during boring (to SecUnit) moments of humans talking the show view slowly grows to take up most of the screen.