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Article 2840 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
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Subject: Re: Searle Agrees with Strong AI?
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Date: 17 Jan 92 17:54:32 GMT
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In article <1992Jan17.013013.8681@nuscc.nus.sg> Smoliar@ISS.nus.sg 
(Stephen Smoliar) writes:
>However, if society now judges the sort of
>artifact Marvin has hypothesized to be ALIVE, the rules of the game suddenly
>change.  Suddenly I may find my laboratory being picketed by an army of animal
>rights activists;  and, from their point of view, they may well be justified
>in being outraged by my behavior.  After all, if I turn it off and mess things
>up to the point where I cannot turn it back on again, have I killed it?

I have been thinking of creating a new organization called People for the
Ethical Treatment of Cellular Automata... Our lawyers will be contacting
you shortly...


