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>From: tim@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Roberts)
Subject: Re: Brain and Mind (was: Logic and God)
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avl0@cine88.cineca.it writes:

>> <tim.719123764@giaeb> tim@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Tim Roberts) writes:
>>
>>And that when these machines also look just like you and me, and act just
>>like you and me, the whole question as to whether they have consciousness
>>will appear so ridiculous that it will not even be worth debating....since
>>if I believe YOU have consciousness, which I do, there will be absolutely
>>no justification whatsoever for denying consciousness to that nice Ms Robot
>>over there....even if she does have green slime instead of blood.
>>
>>Tim

>Great! When you'll make such an android I'll be the first to buy it.
>It will be my preferred toy and if it will bore me I'll can switch it off.
>By the way ... can you tell me why I can't kill my boring wife?

Well, you can....but I suspect you don't want to, for a huge variety of
reasons, not the least of which is that she is unique, and if you kill her
there is no known way to replicate her or make any sort of duplicate.  The
same would be true of anything unique and incredibly complex.

By the way, does your wife know you find her boring ?

Tim
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