Returning to Data (yes, I am a treky). The line "...his strings have been cut" uttered by Commander Riker after he switches Data off has stuck with me for some reason. It's the idea of control dictating person-hood. Data cannot be a person because he was made by another person. In reality Data boils down to cleaver programming, he thinks because it was someone's will that he should. His creator put into him the capability of reason, will, and learning, yet we can end all that with a switch. But the question I think that needs to be asked here is whether the capability of turning that switch back on is the key. Our Creator has put into us the capabilities that Data has, and more. We can end it all by flipping a switch too, or pulling a trigger. Are we human because we cannot be turned back on? Or can we? People have died and have been resuscitated through modern medicine. So what was the point of Riker's switch flip?