Comments | mysweetdeath: Writer's Block: Humans and Cylons

mysweetdeath

Writer's Block: Humans and Cylons

Jan 16, 2009 17:48

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theperipheral January 17 2009, 01:33:46 UTC

Even though it may have it's own consciousness? Do my mother and father own the right to command me because they made me?

mysweetdeath January 17 2009, 13:41:09 UTC

No, your parents did not create you in the sense that they fashioned every aspect of your being.

With machines, we are the designers and creators of their existence.

doctoreon January 17 2009, 13:48:33 UTC

What do you think about neural networks that learn on their own. We create the basic hardware and some simple instructions, then we let them loose in the environment, interact with them and give them information, much like raising children. So, in that sense, we do not fashion every aspect of their existence; they are active participants.

mysweetdeath January 17 2009, 13:53:16 UTC

Point is, they're still not living, organic beings. While they may have independent thought, in the end we still fashioned their root existence.

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doctoreon January 17 2009, 05:51:46 UTC

Does this include our children?

mysweetdeath January 17 2009, 13:41:34 UTC

no.

doctoreon January 17 2009, 13:43:44 UTC

Why not?

mysweetdeath January 17 2009, 13:44:34 UTC

see the above comment.