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Article #256Re: Building robots is a SIN ! ! !
From: Andy Baker
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:17
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:17
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Dude, I shit you not. Check this out. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041018/brain.html or http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041022104658.htm or http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/24/0024241 or http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1228132.htm or http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65438,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 I may be a complete spaz drinking gallons of coffee a day, but I NEVER saw this coming. Andy "jbeck" <jNOSPAMbeck@zianet.com> wrote in message news:417dbc07@nntp.zianet.com... > > "Andy Baker" <respond@the.news.gr.oup> wrote in message > news:oedfd.32082$l07.377@twister.nyroc.rr.com... >> Ohoooh and speaking of monkeys!!!! I'm SO glad that this thread went this >> direction!!! >> >> Now lets say, hypothetically, OK.. that you build this robot, right? but >> it doesn't have a CPU in it. got that, so Instead, you use a monkey's >> brain in place of the CPU. get it? a MONKEY'S BRAIN!! Now since the robot >> isn't alive till you give it a means to control itself, be it a monkey >> brain or a computer, and you just happen to be using a spidermonkey >> brain, which god originally gave life to, would it be a sin then? Or >> would it depend on whether you took the brain from a dead or a live >> monkey? I bet if you took it from a live monkey, it wouldn't be a >> sin...or would it? If you took the brain out of the monkey, but let the >> brain live in a robot, would you really be killing the monkey? or just >> cutting off a part that.......it didn't need any more? kinda like >> fingernails.... but a little more extensive, because in that case you >> really wouldn't be killing the monkey, but I bet that if you took it from >> a dead monkey, it would be even more of a sin because then you'd be >> resurrecting a monkey, which is a feat only jesusmunkey can get away >> with. Unless........ you could find the monkey messiah (son of monkey >> god) then maybe you could get away with bringing his brain back to life >> in a robot and monkey god wouldn't smite you, because your monkey brain >> died, albeit temporarily for the sins of other monkeys... and if you've >> ever been to the zoo, boy howdie can those monkeys sin. Do you think >> they're born with those hairy palms? It's amazing that they haven't all >> gone blind for god's sake! >> >> Debate THAT Karl-Hugo Weesberg!!! >> > > > Dude! Less caffeine!!!!!!! > > >
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