Twice as bright but twice as short. The soul of the Replicant.

The screening of the blade runner in class was actually the first time I have ever seen this film. My favorite moment was when the replicant Roy and his maker Tyrell were having a conversation about the possibilities of prolonging Roy’s life, and Tyrell tells Roy that a flame that burns twice as bright will die twice as fast. This quote and Roy’s last monologue before he dies “When I die my memories will disappear like teardrops in the rain”, just makes me think so much about how similar the humans are to replicants. First of all we are more like the replicants than we think we are. The Replicants are capable of doing so much more than humans, according to Roy, he has seen things that humans cannot imagine! His life is much shorter than a human, but he has lived far more than a human. The replicants are to humans as humans are to tortoises. A tortoise lives far longer than a human but a human’s life has so much more depth and contains things that are unimaginable to a tortoise. Our life burns out twice as fast as the tortoise but also burns twice as bright, just as the replicants life burns twice as fast as a human's but burns twice as fast. The replicants artificial eyes represents its artificial intelligence. It was not born from natural means but was created and therefore it’s eyes(window to the soul) must have also been created. But just because the replicants have artificial eyes, doesn't mean that their souls are artificial as well. It is evident that the film Bladerunner challenges its audience idea of a soul by making it seem as if the replicants themselves have a soul. We are empathetic with the replicants in their desperation to prolong their life since death is the one thing all creatures have in common. We see that the replicants are capable of love and compassion, like how Rachel and Dekard fell in love and how Roy was heartbroken when Pris was killed. So there is no doubt of the possibility that replicants can have souls like humans too. We cannot say that a replicant does not have a soul since they dont have a real window to their soul(fake eyes) because if a being with artificial eyes does not have a real window into their souls then a human with artificial eyes must not have a soul either and that just doesn't make sense. In fact the Bladerunner seems to suggest that the soul of a replicant is actually much more potent and valuable than the soul of a human. They explicitly quoted that a replicant is may die twice as fast but are twice as bright as the human, therefore the replicants being that its soul derives from is twice as good as a human and its soul is therefore twice the value of a humans. This makes sense because a replicant is closer to perfection than a human, the only thing that it pays for this perfection is its shorter lifespan. The replicant may have a less quantitative life but far more qualitative life.