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either way, the robots are getting some fun too.
but he is john smith
like you say
he's got the same everything that makes up john smith
therefore he is john smith
does the "cut" not kill the person? Unless you believe in a soul or metaphysical consciousness, then the "cut" would end the life of the person being downloaded or whatever.
it wouldn't feel like just going to sleep and waking up in a new robot body. not for you. instead, you'd just die.
that's what i am hypothesizing. oh, sure, the "pasted" intelligence would consider itself you and would tell you it felt like just going to sleep, but that's just a duplicate emulating the person it was based on
Throughout your life all of the cells in your body are replaced naturally.
In fact, I'm sure it was said somewhere this takes only 7 years.
The person you were when you were born is, by your definitions, dead. You are a new person down to the cellular level already, without the need for cybernetics.
How can it be slavery to you? Aren't you religous? (Jewish / Buddhist, right?).
Without an actual soul it would still be a thing and every sentience it posseses would be a simulation in the end.
as far as i am concerned i'd put that in the same category as dudes who jerk it to cartoon child porn
like, i don't think a crime is being committed because no child is actually being harmed there
but it's still gross and makes them a sick fuck
A sex golem
What if they transferred your conscience into two different robots?
And now that you've told me my future digital conciousness is going to have Hell of guilt trips. Gee, thanks a lot, Pony.
i am of the personal belief that what defines us as self-aware persons isn't a magic soul exclusive to mankind.
if you make an artificial person that has all the sapience and intelligence of a human being, you have created a person and as a person they have rights
like the right to not be a sex slave
they've created two duplicates of you
they aren't you
you aren't them
Is that Freakazoid?
Which then raises the question of what "true" consciousness is.
Personally, I don't think humanity will ever be able to create an artificial consciousness, or that we will be able to somehow "transfer" consciousness from a natural construct to a synthetic one.
how are they not you?
i believe it can happen and, in the case of creating full artifical consciousness, will eventually happen
so it creates ethical issues and philosophical conversations that should be had
are you morally wrong there. it has no real intelligence, just what you gave it in your mind. but in your mind it is as human as anyone else.
you've gone mad with power
you've made inserts for the vagina out of various other cheeses.
the gouda was your favorite
I enjoy the philosophical conversations surrounding the issue even though I don't think it will eve be a real world problem.
Because honestly, I don't have a real scientific reason why I think consciousness will never be artificially created. It's more of a philosophical or religious belief.
That was a pretty crazy movie. I'm still not sure if there was anything that made sense beyond the pretty animation, but I probably just need to watch it again.
What if it wants to be a sex slave? Is it still truly a slave then?
i don't believe morality is an objective force in the universe
as a result
if the person doesn't feel bad about fucking their strange cheese person despite believing they are intelligent
it doesn't mean they're doing something immoral
but they're the kind of person who should be watched because not only do they have some kind of weird schizophrenic break with reality, they don't feel particularly bad about it
If they possess all my memories I'd argue they are me. Basically as I said, I do not believe us to be more than walking sacks of flesh.
So the thing that would come even remotely to a metaphysical 'me' would be the sum of my memories.
And if you copy them they are basically me, until 1 second later we had different experiences and would become different beings.
What? Why? If my child is born with Down's Syndrome are his rights violated?
and that raises a further question about AI programming
in creating an AI, are you going to allow it all the randomness the human brain allows for, or are you going "lean" the AI in a certain way so it wants to do certain things.
are you going to make soldier robots who enjoy war, who feel it is their purpose to defend their country and fight the enemy?
are you going to make prostibots who crave sex and feel it is something they need.
if you're making a robot, it only has the "needs" that you create for it
it's pretty fucking clear that you're the one that doesn't understand
my point is quite fucking simple
if it thinks it is John Smith, then where's the fucking problem?
sense of self is intact, crisis averted
the only problem is external, how you define John Smith as an observer and your insistence that he's not just because he has a different body
whereas I don't really care if he is or isn't, as long as he has a self identity and is able to cope
Namely, blow shit up and make me sandwiches
what differentiates that from you?
what else is quantifiably you besides those memories and mannerisms?