Welcome back Squonk! I would love to knock heads with you, literally. I have always found our exchanges to be like body slamming in a mosh pit. Not sure where you are heading with your moral raising of brains in vats but it is not, as you suggest, unknown in science fiction. Majority Report was about psychics raised in vats and used to convict "pre-criminals" of crimes they were about to commit.
Hi Krimel, Me too. I only got to see Minority report the other night and i found it surprisingly enjoyable, even though i am not a fan of Tom Cruise. (I thought his performance in 'War of the Worlds' was the best he's ever given by the way - i liked that.) In "Vanilla Sky" another Cruiser, Tom figures out he is living in a virtual world. "The 13th Floor" and the ever weird Cronenberg's "eXitenZ" were different riffs on the themes of "The Matrix". Slaughterhouse Five has aliens keeping Billy Pilgrim in a kind of zoo/vat with a Playboy bunny. There are lots of stories about AIs coming to sentience, WOPR in the 1983 "War Games", "I, Robot", Skynet in Terminator or the Star Trek episode were the holodeck creature Morarity gains sentience and is given his own virtual world to live in and a virtual sweetheart to live with. Science fiction certainly provides a wonderful scope for philosophers to?explore morality. Hope you are well. squonk Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
