Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)
Is it cold in here?:
I can't remember anything as on-point as the current discussion, but there was once a thread about the social, legal, and ethical status of AnthroPCs.
EDIT: Spider Robinson said that in his view anyone who says "Excuse me" is human.
Skewbrow:
Surely a sentient robot might easily gain some rights: e.g. a minimum salary, a bank account, copyright to its creations,...
But in The Bicentennial Man the robot realized in the end that to be accepted as a human, he must be prepared to `die'. I think that the good Dr Asimov caught something essential there. I mean, if I were in a jury deciding whether a sentience deserves to be called a human being...
Loki:
This is the toaster that makes bread fun. 8-)
I hope it hasn't been posted before.
Edit:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 25 Aug 2011, 21:16 ---in the end that to be accepted as a human, he must be prepared to `die'.
--- End quote ---
Have you happened to read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by any chance? (Warning: TVTropes link).
--- Quote ---Harry said, "I thought of my absolute rejection of death as the natural order."
--- End quote ---
I must say I don't get the notion that one would need to accept death in order to live, either. Care to explain?
gangler:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 25 Aug 2011, 21:16 ---Surely a sentient robot might easily gain some rights: e.g. a minimum salary, a bank account, copyright to its creations,...
But in The Bicentennial Man the robot realized in the end that to be accepted as a human, he must be prepared to `die'. I think that the good Dr Asimov caught something essential there. I mean, if I were in a jury deciding whether a sentience deserves to be called a human being...
--- End quote ---
Megaman ZX. Humans and reploids finally reach a truce. The terms of agreement were that the humans receive cybernetic upgrades allowing them to function on a similar level to the reploids, whereas the reploids took on mortality instituting something similar to a biological clock making their lifespan finite.
I know it's not the greatest work of science fiction from a literary standpoint that I could be citing, but it seems relevant.
Personally I think human is great, but if I could be something better I would.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Loki on 25 Aug 2011, 21:16 ---
I must say I don't get the notion that one would need to accept death in order to live, either. Care to explain?
--- End quote ---
That was not the point. The point was that if you are an immortal sentience I shall not treat you as a human being. I may respect you and your acts and creations in many other ways, but I will not think of you as a fellow human being.
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