Post by midcan5 on Dec 15, 2009 14:53:48 GMT -5
If the mind is the brain and conscious because of it, does it follow that a conscious machine is a brain is a mind. And if a mind is the moral element of the human and because of that fact possessed with rights does it follow that a conscious machine possesses rights?
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/14/rage-against-machines-robots
By Peter Singer and Agata Sagan
"If, as seems likely, we develop super-intelligent machines, their rights will need protection, too."
and www.ted.com/index.php/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html
"...the "astonishing hypothesis" — that even our loftiest thoughts and aspirations are mere byproducts of neural activity. We are nothing but a pack of neurons."
www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran06_index.html
and www.amazon.com/Wider-Than-Sky-Phenomenal-Consciousness/dp/0300107617/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260898808&sr=1-4
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/14/rage-against-machines-robots
By Peter Singer and Agata Sagan
"If, as seems likely, we develop super-intelligent machines, their rights will need protection, too."
and www.ted.com/index.php/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html
"...the "astonishing hypothesis" — that even our loftiest thoughts and aspirations are mere byproducts of neural activity. We are nothing but a pack of neurons."
www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran06_index.html
and www.amazon.com/Wider-Than-Sky-Phenomenal-Consciousness/dp/0300107617/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260898808&sr=1-4