29th July 2005, 7:17 AM
To Smoke-X: You could say that, but when all the evidence points to most vertebrates having some sort of self awareness (about how one defines a soul, everything else the brain is responsible for so that's pretty much all that's left) and none says they don't, then well, you go where the evidence points.
Now on the other hand, no evidence saying these e-animals are aware of themselves in any way. Some day, we may actually feel guilty turning off our computers, that'll be the day self awareness has been reached.
Now on the other hand, no evidence saying these e-animals are aware of themselves in any way. Some day, we may actually feel guilty turning off our computers, that'll be the day self awareness has been reached.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)