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From: sa209@utb.shv.hb.se (Claes Andersson)
Subject: Re: Thought Question
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aturner@Direct.CA (Allan Turner) wrote:
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>>Cars reproduce via factories the same way worker ants reproduce via
>>their queens.  The queens are incapable of fending for themselves,
>>so the workers care, clean and defend them.  The workers are incapable
>>of reproduction, so the queen makes more of them.
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>Worker ants do not reproduce. Queens do. Cars do not reproduce, factories
>PRODUCE.

 I agree, worker ants aids in the breeding of the queens new offspring for a
completely different reason than for which the worker produce cars. (All
car-factory-workers aren't brothers or sisters and the cars aren't diploid
versions of themselves..)

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>>As factories and companies become more automated and self-controlling,
>>the interpretation of economic objects as reproducing life forms
>>becomes ever more compelling.  It is already very strong.
>>
>>                -- Hans Moravec   CMU Robotics
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>Objects are not and will never be life forms, no matter what people try
>to delude themselves into not facing that fact.
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>Do you define the word 'interpretation' as pretending???
>
>People in this thread are pretending they don't know that just because
>we use one word - reproduce - to mean a number of things,  that these

Yes, when the factories start to construct new factories and the cars just to
be able to reproduce themselves, theire function starts to become lifelike.

Hmm. I suddenly begin to wonder what this topis has to do with this thread
but... very well. That's the moderator's job.


Claes Andersson. University of Bors. Sweden.
