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What is the social/ethical/legal status of AnthroPCs?
Dliessmgg:
Aren'tsentient machines also machines with complex behaviour?
Is it cold in here?:
Yes, but often when people say "machines" they mean "just machines".
Mr_Rose:
Also Sentient machines fall into the category of machines with complex behaviour in the an analogous way to how humans fall into the category of animals. In a poll like this, typically one assumes that if one option is a broad category and another is a narrower sub-category of the first, then the first broad category is being treated as excluding the narrower sub-category.
Tuitsuro:
Sentience has never been well defined. One basic definition of sentience is whether the lifeform in question is 'self aware', but a true definition of sentience itself is rather subjective. If you've ever read Chobits, the plot there was that these personal computers called 'persocoms', which were human in appearance and could do everything a personal computer would do, but were not actually sentient but instead had very complex software and hardware. The idea that was bandied about in the series was that these special computers called 'chobits' existed, which could extend themselves beyond their programming; effectively, they could feel and act in ways which were not simply by design, effectively sentient. The main persocom in the series, Chi, was thought to be one, and throughout the series the main human protagonist, Hideki, is conflicted about how he feels for her, knowing that she's only a computer, despite the fact that her 'programming' closely mimics real human interactions. Effectively, whether actually 'loving' something like that, or treating it as equal to a human being, would be wrong. It was a rather nifty series, actually...
Border Reiver:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 20 Mar 2010, 06:24 ---A murrain on thy cakes formed in pans!
He speaks of clever alien agents meant to infiltrate Earth, gather intelligence, and then transform the planet into the wild, wild world of uninhibited, witless Miley Cyrus clones. The last report: so far, so good!
--- End quote ---
If you mean the planet of wild, uninhibited Grace Park, Lucy Lawless and Tricia Helfer clones then I'm in.
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