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I am so excited for this game!!!

I wanted to write down somewhere about this particular scene based on a mission in the demo. Because I got a bit deep in my thought process.

TL;DR: If P is in the process of developing emotions and feelings, is this child human to him, or still a puppet?

A brief bit of context for in the demo, there's an illness petrifying (literally not emotionally) people, and something that has caused puppets to start attacking everything and everyone. The puppets once being civil servants.
During your task to find Geppetto, you pass through a hospital that houses people with this petrification illness and, as the game puts it, the mentally unstable. As you climb down you hear a woman crying and when you speak to her she says she is sick and losing her sight due to the illness, and the last wish she has is to see her baby daughter one last time. I wasn't sure what to expect considering most of the humans I had seen were all lying dead in the streets. A mild impasse of am I bringing a child into the danger of being infected? Through the danger of the puppets? Has this child met the fate of the people in the streets and I'm to bring this lady a corpse? Or the news of the child's death?
I don't know why, but the possibility of the child being a puppet didn't cross my mind.
I find the child and the picture is very small but it shows that its damaged, with Gemini (pronounced Jiminy) stating there were "no survivors here".
This brings up a whole new impasse. It may be a puppet but she obviously thinks dearly of it, but what is the threshold of damage to a puppet where even if someone was, for use of a better term, deluded and fully under the impression that this is a living child? Would she receive the same devastating impact of losing a real child, or if not, the trauma of seeing the state the puppet is in as someone would seeing their child in the same state? Perhaps she is completely self aware that this is a puppet, and just depends on it for emotional support, and even though the puppet is broken, it's still her puppet that she is so fond of.
Of course it is all the same to Pinocchio (hazarding a guess that it's his name) because he is a puppet that looks human, the woman saw you as human, but is that because you look convincingly human, or because she genuinely can't recognise the difference? Does P really have a convincing enough appearance to pass as human or is it simply his own perception of himself? Because there is a guy who recognises you, however he recognises you because you're a very specific puppet. At first he thought you were human, too. There are two other humans that seem to recognise you as human too. Additionally the puppets don't attack each other, but they do attack you so it seems they recognise you as human too.
I returned the puppet to the woman and she was grateful and seemed convinced this was a real baby, to which you have the option to respond "yes she is beautiful" or "this is a puppet". She won't believe you if you say it is a puppet, which is probably where the 'Puppets can't lie' element in the game comes into play.
You lied to a security system and told it you were human, and it accepted that. Can a puppet tell what is a lie and what is not?
If you had told her this was a puppet, from her perspective you'd be lying, having been convinced that it is a puppet by her (long deceased) family. gepettos puppet is a 'special puppet' that can lie, and I think this game mechanic is going to create a LOT of really deep analogies. And maybe addressing things such as 'this statement is a lie' which is not actually as much of an issue for something that cannot formulate lies as people make out. A false statement is not a lie. It's just false. It is only a lie when you add the context of intending to cause deception, which in reality is the element that puppets cannot produce, the 'intention' of deception.
In other words, a puppet is not a lie detector. If they have been informed that something is fact. For example, if gepettos puppet is told he is human, and is not given the definition of what being human means, then as far as he is concerned in his own logical calculation, he is human, therefor he is not lying.
So I basically am asking... if the woman believed the puppet was human, is gepettos puppet really lying to her when he agrees with how beautiful her baby is?
Interestingly, when gepettos puppet lies to the security system about being human, gepettos puppet's 'springs feel strange' right away. However if you tell the woman her baby is a puppet or if you agree with the woman about her child, nothing happens. The difference is she gifts you a piece of music called 'Feel' if you agree with her (and not if you don't). If you take it back to Hotel Krat and listen to the whole song, you get the 'springs feel strange' notice again.

I am so looking forward to how they tackle this dynamic. So far I am getting the same vibes as 'Would you kindly...?' from the first Bioshock game. If you know, you know. If you don't, would you kindly go and watch some Bioshock playthroughs?

Edit: I have covered most of the game, and little did I know just how painfully deep my theory reaches

Description
I am so excited for this game!!!

I wanted to write down somewhere about this particular scene based on a mission in the demo. Because I got a bit deep in my thought process.

TL;DR: If P is in the process of developing emotions and feelings, is this child human to him, or still a puppet?

A brief bit of context for in the demo, there's an illness petrifying (literally not emotionally) people, and something that has caused puppets to start attacking everything and everyone. The puppets once being civil servants.
During your task to find Geppetto, you pass through a hospital that houses people with this petrification illness and, as the game puts it, the mentally unstable. As you climb down you hear a woman crying and when you speak to her she says she is sick and losing her sight due to the illness, and the last wish she has is to see her baby daughter one last time. I wasn't sure what to expect considering most of the humans I had seen were all lying dead in the streets. A mild impasse of am I bringing a child into the danger of being infected? Through the danger of the puppets? Has this child met the fate of the people in the streets and I'm to bring this lady a corpse? Or the news of the child's death?
I don't know why, but the possibility of the child being a puppet didn't cross my mind.
I find the child and the picture is very small but it shows that its damaged, with Gemini (pronounced Jiminy) stating there were "no survivors here".
This brings up a whole new impasse. It may be a puppet but she obviously thinks dearly of it, but what is the threshold of damage to a puppet where even if someone was, for use of a better term, deluded and fully under the impression that this is a living child? Would she receive the same devastating impact of losing a real child, or if not, the trauma of seeing the state the puppet is in as someone would seeing their child in the same state? Perhaps she is completely self aware that this is a puppet, and just depends on it for emotional support, and even though the puppet is broken, it's still her puppet that she is so fond of.
Of course it is all the same to Pinocchio (hazarding a guess that it's his name) because he is a puppet that looks human, the woman saw you as human, but is that because you look convincingly human, or because she genuinely can't recognise the difference? Does P really have a convincing enough appearance to pass as human or is it simply his own perception of himself? Because there is a guy who recognises you, however he recognises you because you're a very specific puppet. At first he thought you were human, too. There are two other humans that seem to recognise you as human too. Additionally the puppets don't attack each other, but they do attack you so it seems they recognise you as human too.
I returned the puppet to the woman and she was grateful and seemed convinced this was a real baby, to which you have the option to respond "yes she is beautiful" or "this is a puppet". She won't believe you if you say it is a puppet, which is probably where the 'Puppets can't lie' element in the game comes into play.
You lied to a security system and told it you were human, and it accepted that. Can a puppet tell what is a lie and what is not?
If you had told her this was a puppet, from her perspective you'd be lying, having been convinced that it is a puppet by her (long deceased) family. gepettos puppet is a 'special puppet' that can lie, and I think this game mechanic is going to create a LOT of really deep analogies. And maybe addressing things such as 'this statement is a lie' which is not actually as much of an issue for something that cannot formulate lies as people make out. A false statement is not a lie. It's just false. It is only a lie when you add the context of intending to cause deception, which in reality is the element that puppets cannot produce, the 'intention' of deception.
In other words, a puppet is not a lie detector. If they have been informed that something is fact. For example, if gepettos puppet is told he is human, and is not given the definition of what being human means, then as far as he is concerned in his own logical calculation, he is human, therefor he is not lying.
So I basically am asking... if the woman believed the puppet was human, is gepettos puppet really lying to her when he agrees with how beautiful her baby is?
Interestingly, when gepettos puppet lies to the security system about being human, gepettos puppet's 'springs feel strange' right away. However if you tell the woman her baby is a puppet or if you agree with the woman about her child, nothing happens. The difference is she gifts you a piece of music called 'Feel' if you agree with her (and not if you don't). If you take it back to Hotel Krat and listen to the whole song, you get the 'springs feel strange' notice again.

I am so looking forward to how they tackle this dynamic. So far I am getting the same vibes as 'Would you kindly...?' from the first Bioshock game. If you know, you know. If you don't, would you kindly go and watch some Bioshock playthroughs?

Edit: I have covered most of the game, and little did I know just how painfully deep my theory reaches