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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 272: Anti-Social(ist) Tendencies
red sox 777 02/24/20 1:25:21 PM #200:	Jakyl25 posted... A computer is not alive. Machine sentience is its own can of worms, but no one would argue a computer is BIOLOGICALLY alive If the question is whether something is alive, a tree is alive and cannot think. If the question is whether something can think, we need to consider the case of a computer. Or, if you argue that its hardware is similar to a brain, a distributed cloud computing network where there is obviously no physical "brain." Also, why is a computer not biologically alive? Because it's made of silicon rather than carbon? That seems very prejudiced to me! --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! <cite>red sox 777 posted [p:934812969] in Politics C... [t:78425455]...</cite> <quote>Jakyl25 posted... </cite> <quote>A computer is not alive. Machine sentience is its own can of worms, but no one would argue a computer is BIOLOGICALLY alive</quote> If the question is whether something is alive, a tree is alive and cannot think. If the question is whether something can think, we need to consider the case of a computer. Or, if you argue that its hardware is similar to a brain, a distributed cloud computing network where there is obviously no physical "brain." Also, why is a computer not biologically alive? Because it's made of silicon rather than carbon? That seems very prejudiced to me! --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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