Hi Bruno Marchal My judgment was overly harsh if they transplanted something living along with the computer transplant or partial transplant. But it doesn't look too promising that the result would even be alive.
I don't know why you keep imputing racism on me just because I realistically allow that there can be differences in people. For one thing, I'm no way as smart as you are. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/14/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-14, 06:46:21 Subject: Re: On marrying a talking doll On 13 Sep 2012, at 13:53, Roger Clough wrote: > Again, if my daughter is human, why would she want to marry a robot ? > She wants a talking doll I suppose. Probably needs a shrink. No. She just want to marry Jim. It is nice guy. She is glad that he survived the brain transplant. She does not consider him as a robot, but as a fully human being, just with new clothes. If you believe this is impossible, it means either that you believe that Jim's mind, cannot be Turing emulable, which is a metaphysical stance, and you can't impose it to your daughter, or that he is a zombie. From her point of view, you behave like a racist, which judge people from the character of their body, and throw their souls and subjectivity in the trash. You are the one telling your daughter that Jim is "nothing but" a bunch of metallic and silicon. She *knows* Jim, and recognize him through the transformation. You can't know that she is wrong, do you? Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
