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

To: thames_sider who wrote (9825)	3/27/2001 9:58:46 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Have you ever seen the movie "Short Circuit", where it is posited that a robot comes alive after being struck by lightening? That might give a plausible image of how it might react. As for death and resurrection, all things die. There is no reason to think that an indefinitely prolonged life is an infinite life. But there is no clear requirement of resurrection. I am not a Christian, so I do not know it to be mandatory anyway, but even if it were, robots do not share in the burden of Adam. Perhaps they do not need to be resurrected. I am not sufficiently acquainted with science fiction to come up with another example........