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WCDT Strips 3641 to 3645 (25th - 30th December 2017)
Perfectly Reasonable:
Souls? Dunno.
But robots definitely have buddha nature.
Gyrre:
I was approaching it from the same angle I took for the question of whether animals had souls or not.
I ultimately settled for the conclusion that they had the capacity to earn a soul. Which is very likely the notion behind the expression "all dogs go to heaven". Granted that saying isn't true as I'm certain I've met soulless dogs (which is a super weird vibe since my family has always had a dog or 2).
Being that the A.I. in QC are much more intelligent than most animals, they have a much greater capacity to earn a soul.
EDIT: fixing typos
hedgie:
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 29 Dec 2017, 09:53 ---I prefer "recovering Catholic." You're never quite rid of all of it.
--- End quote ---
One mass is one too many.
Morituri:
I think my first rumination on the topic, when I was 15 or so, resulted in the conclusion that no matter how smart a soulless creature was, it would not care whether or not it had a soul. (This conclusion rests on some assumptions about what a soul is and the idea that it makes spiritual issues *relevant* to a being).
And that the correct answer to "Do I have a soul", whether it comes from a robot or a biologically engineered animal or whatever else is, "The fact that it matters to you, means that you do."
I don't think I'd be quite so quick to simply assert those assumptions about a soul and its making spiritual issues relevant now as I was at age 15, but I still think it's a fairly reasonable approach to the issue.
sitnspin:
My answer, of course, would be "No, but neither do humans, so I wouldn't worry about it too much." 😁
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