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Offline nicholas

Re: Philosophical Question - Amiguing
« Reply #44 from previous page: July 28, 2013, 06:26:26 PM »
Quote from: bloodline;742828
My use of language was remiss then, I still have a problem with the human centric concepts that put animals and machine subservient to them :)


Machines are subservient perhaps but not animals.
“Een rezhim-i eshghalgar-i Quds bayad az sahneh-i ruzgar mahv shaved.” - Imam Ayatollah Sayyed  Ruhollah Khomeini
 

Offline nicholas

Re: Philosophical Question - Amiguing
« Reply #45 on: July 28, 2013, 07:33:58 PM »
Quote from: Mrs Beanbag;742838
We created machines so their contract is with us.

I don't have a problem with the idea of sentient machines though, but the ethical questions that would raise, I don't even know where to start.

Need another Bible.


Here's one. ;)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0201353776/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1375036389&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY190
“Een rezhim-i eshghalgar-i Quds bayad az sahneh-i ruzgar mahv shaved.” - Imam Ayatollah Sayyed  Ruhollah Khomeini
 

Offline nicholas

Re: Philosophical Question - Amiguing
« Reply #46 on: July 28, 2013, 08:01:56 PM »
Quote from: bloodline;742845
Doesn't answer the question, if a machine can be sentient? ;)


Perhaps, but only in the same way psychopaths are sentient too. ;)
“Een rezhim-i eshghalgar-i Quds bayad az sahneh-i ruzgar mahv shaved.” - Imam Ayatollah Sayyed  Ruhollah Khomeini
 

Offline nicholas

Re: Philosophical Question - Amiguing
« Reply #47 on: July 28, 2013, 08:03:16 PM »
Quote from: bloodline;742846
Lol :) but mrs beanbag raises a good point... If we created the sentient machines do they answer to us (as gods) or do we give them the same rights as us?



Do we have the right to give them the same rights we have?
“Een rezhim-i eshghalgar-i Quds bayad az sahneh-i ruzgar mahv shaved.” - Imam Ayatollah Sayyed  Ruhollah Khomeini
 

Offline nicholas

Re: Philosophical Question - Amiguing
« Reply #48 on: July 29, 2013, 06:01:22 PM »
Let's lighten this thread up a bit with a joke a Christian friend sent me.
"An atheist was seated next to a little girl on an airplane and he turned to her and said, "Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger."*
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The little girl, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger, "What would you want to talk about?"*
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"Oh, I don't know," said the atheist. "How about why there is no God, or no Heaven or Hell, or no life after death?" as he smiled smugly.*
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"Okay," she said. "Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff - grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?"*
**
The atheist, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." *

To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss God, Heaven and Hell, or life after death, when you don't know sh!t?"*
**
And then she went back to reading her book.”

Please feel free to throw back some theist jokes. :)
“Een rezhim-i eshghalgar-i Quds bayad az sahneh-i ruzgar mahv shaved.” - Imam Ayatollah Sayyed  Ruhollah Khomeini