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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (9788)	3/26/2001 7:27:36 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Here's a poser... if - as does now look possible, in medium future - the totality of a human experience can be transferred to a computerised system, so that it has until transferral the same experiences, memories and reactions of the flesh body, is it still human? If it thought it was?[LOL - and would it have a soul?] A poser indeed. And here's perhaps the ultimate question -- could it love? And would it be capable of risking its life to save another? Would male computers give up their places in the lifeboat to female and infant computers? Humans are cpable of extraordinary acts of self-endangerment and even self-sacrifice to save the lives of absolute strangers. It makes no sense to endanger a hundred lives in a search for one lost hiker or skiier. But we do it. Thank goodness! Until a computer can do that without logically justifying the act, it can't be human!