What is Altered Carbon referring to?
Why is the Netflix Series Altered Carbon, named so? Its main concepts are immortality, "sleeves" and "stacks".
In one episode, a character was saying that "we are just Altered Carbon". Why did they chose this name?
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It's a little vague...even the original novel doesn't use the term Altered Carbon very often..and it certainly doesn't explain it in any detail.
However, I think we can make some interpretations.
Humans are generally described as "carbon-based" lifeforms...
Almost 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.
As such, stack-enhanced humans could be described as "altered carbon".
Marooned in the glow on benches of old wood, a scattering of humanity waited in silence for friends or family to ride in from their altered carbon exiles.
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Equally, it seems that the term "altered carbon" may refer to the alien technology itself of stored bodies awaiting re-sleeving.
We tramped through basement rooms cooled to the seven to eleven degrees Celsius recommended by the makers of altered carbon, peered at racks of the big thirty-centimeter expanded-format disks, and admired the retrieval robots that ran on wide-gauge rails along the storage walls.
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What is the meaning of Altered Carbon?
Carbon is the element thanks to which life exists. It's basically holds every living thing together and makes it what it is. The term "Altered Carbon" is used as "altered life"/"altered body", you can change bodies (change your "carbon" body). 3.Why is the show called Altered Carbon?
Altered carbon is the type of material that the stacks are made out of. It's the elder civilization's invention. The material itself is made from carbon, but as the name suggests it's altered.What is the message of Altered Carbon?
The main theme of Altered Carbon is the exploration of where the mind/soul ends and the body begins.What planet is Altered Carbon on?
Season 2 of Netflix's Sci-Fi series Altered Carbon is set on Takeshi Kovacs' home planet, Harlan's World, which has a dark and mysterious history.ALTERED CARBON Everything EXPLAINED!!!
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I thought along similar lines... but my wife has a different opinion. She thinks the title refers to "carbon copies" as the sleaves are in many cases copies of our former selfs.
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